Author: ANGELO CIGNAROLI (Turin 1767 – 1841/42)
Title: Snowy landscape with figures
Period: 18th century
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 71 x 90 cm (88 x 106 cm including frame)
Condition: fair
Provenance: Asti
Rediscovered by Andreina Griseri on the occasion of the exhibition on the Piedmontese Baroque of 1963, Angelo Cignaroli has been the subject of some partial and collateral exhibitions, but never the subject of an in-depth monographic study.
Raised in his father's workshop, Angelo inherited the position of royal painter of "landscapes and groves" in 1792. Unlike Vittorio Amedeo, known above all for ideal landscapes with an Arcadian and classicizing taste, he specialized in the execution of medium-sized views from life of royal residences and cities, villages and sites belonging to the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Angelo Cignaroli was also a painter of the alpine sublime: he is in fact the author of some early alpine views, mainly focused on the Mont Blanc massif and its glaciers, then the object of scientific explorations by the Swiss Horace-Benedict de Saussure, author of the admirable Voyages dans le Alps (1779-96).
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