"Hagar, Ishmael, and the Angel" oil on canvas by Antonio Bellucci (Pieve di Soligo 1654-1726). Bellucci approached painting while serving in the military in Dalmatia, under the guidance of the painter Domenico Difnico from Sebenico. After returning to Venice, he achieved immediate success, with numerous commissions for churches. Around 1690, the first approaches to the Austrian and German world began, until he was highly sought after by the most important North European princes. Upon the death of his patron Giovanni Guglielmo of the Palatinate, he went to London, where he remained for six years. Returning to Venice in 1722, he died in Pieve di Soligo four years later. Bellucci was a figure of great importance in guiding the transition of Venetian painting from the Baroque phase, in which he himself had been educated, towards the new eighteenth-century dimensions. His graceful classicism, shaped also on the knowledge of the Emilian academic painting, is certainly at the base of the Rococo taste.
The painting is in excellent condition and the frame is contemporary.
The painting is accompanied by an expertise by Professor Alessandro Nesi
Canvas dimensions 80x97, with frame 97x114
