Description:
Oil on canvas. The woman depicted in the scene can be identified as Portia, the Roman noblewoman wife of Brutus, who lived in the 1st century BC: according to legend, she committed suicide by swallowing a burning coal, and it is in this fatal moment that she is depicted here. The painting is very close to the pictorial modes of the homonymous painting of the school of Cignani, attributed to his pupil Marcantonio Franceschini and kept at Palazzo Tozzoni in Imola. The figure of Portia, placed in an interior with classical elements, occupies the entire field of the scene, and is represented sitting in front of the burning brazier, in the act of putting the carbon in her mouth; her expression reveals the suffering of the gesture she is making, but also her determination, the gaze that looks far away already places her far from the life she is leaving. The painting has been restored and relined. It is presented in an antique 18th-century frame.
Product Condition:
Product in good condition, with minor signs of wear and tear. We try to present the real state as completely as possible with the photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description is valid.
Frame Dimensions (cm):
Height: 161
Width: 125
Depth: 6.5
Work Dimensions (cm):
Height: 125
Width: 90
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