Giuseppe Zais (Forno di Canale 1709 - Treviso 1784) - Landscape with shepherdesses and a village in the background.
54.5 x 71 cm (unframed) - 72 x 90 cm (framed).
Oil on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame.
Giuseppe Zais is among the most celebrated landscape painters of the Venetian school of the 18th century, known for his depictions of bucolic scenes with stylized figures of shepherds, flocks, and washerwomen, set in an idyllic rural landscape inspired by the Venetian countryside. He trained in Venice, where he was able to observe the works of Marco Ricci, from whom he drew clear inspiration, and was a contemporary of Francesco Zuccarelli, from whom he derived the grace that characterizes his more refined works.
Zais' style was distinguished by a more authentically rural depiction of the Arcadian landscape compared to that of his contemporaries: the compositions, although Rococo-inspired, are imbued with a different sense of realism, given by the use of more marked and brown tones and by a material and pasty application of color.
The painting, confidently attributable to Giuseppe Zais, depicts a river landscape enlivened by a group of figures in the foreground: two women seated on the bank and a third standing with a basket, while in the background herds can be seen drinking from the watercourse, led by a shepherd. The composition closes on the right with a medieval village composed of rural buildings, a bell tower, and architectural ruins, immersed in autumn vegetation rendered with the loose and earthy brushwork typical of the Belluno artist's maturity.
Condition report: Relined canvas. Good condition of the pictorial surface.
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