Description:
Adoration of the Magi
Andrea Locatelli (Rome 1695-1741)
Oil on canvas
Co-eval frame
Canvas measures 64 x 38 frame 77 x 52
Excellent condition
The work is paired with the pendant
depicting the Nativity
The painting, besides being extremely pleasant, is particularly evocative and describes the scene of the Nativity set in a broad Arcadian-style setting.
In fact, the event, already very pleasing in itself, takes on an unusual but truly fascinating aspect in a broad-brushstroke pictorial context.
The result of this interesting compositional solution is a splendid work that, while presenting the characteristics of landscape painting, offers us a delicate devotional cue. The inclusion of religious subjects, with allegorical or mythological figures that blend into Arcadian landscapes, is precisely one of the compositional peculiarities of the works of Andrea Locatelli, a prominent Roman painter of the first half of the 18th century.
His workshop produced with great success splendid canvases of refined taste and dazzling colors, rich in vegetation, often depicting ruins, highly appreciated, especially by noble Roman families.
The painting, together with its pendant, clearly presents all the prerogatives of his production and is easily attributable to his hand.
The two works are complete with their beautiful original gilded frames.
Perfect condition without restorations or repainting
As terms of comparison, we can mention here the stringent affinities with works by Locatelli such as the "Landscape with shepherds and herds" formerly in the Colombo collection in Milan (Busiri Vici, n. 63) or the two "Lazio Landscapes with figures" in the Galleria Pallavicini in Rome (Ibid., nn. 135-136).
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COMPARISON:
A. Busiri Vici, Andrea Locatelli, Rome 1976
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