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Angela Maria Pittetti detta PalancaCamp scenes Pair of paintings Angela Maria Pittetti known as Palanca
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Angela Maria Pittetti known as Palanca (Palancato, 1690 - Turin, 1763)
Hunting rest
Camp scene
(2) Oil on canvas, 85 x 66 cm - with frame 90 x 71 x 4 cm
A work of Piedmontese scope, the pair of canvases, given the manifest stylistic and formal consonances, highlights the hand of Angela Maria Pittetti, known as Palanca, one of the most interesting pictorial personalities of the Piedmontese 1700s. A remarkably talented artist, she was one of the best pupils of the great bambocciate painter Pietro Domenico Ollivero, whose numerous pupils are recorded in the sources of the time; some as famous as Graneri and precisely Palanca.
Pittetti, a native of a small town above Varallo Sesia, Palancato (a hamlet of Boccioleto), hence the nickname Palanca, was born into a family dedicated to the arts, owning a workshop where they made and worked wood and ivory objects. When she married very young, in 1711, she must have already been an esteemed painter since her dowry, also subscribed to by Ollivero, contains no less than 165 paintings, sketches and sketches. The marriage was destined not to last long; in fact, in 1716 she, in a very courageous decision for those times, left her abusive husband and returned to live in Turin. He was soon to specialize in interesting genre scenes, where there is no lack of French influence, characterized by the presence of ladies, gentlemen, knights or so-called bambocciate scenes for which the master was also famous, in which there is always evidence of deep research and attention to clothing, costume, the fashion of the time, and details such as hairstyles, all combined with a special attention to poses and gestures that give great vitality and freshness to his work. Pittetti was an esteemed and in-demand painter who was not without important commissions, as evidenced by a number of payment receipts for paintings done for the Palazzina di Caccia in Stupinigi.
Angela Maria Pittetti's painting is always easily recognizable for her precise stylistic code. Indeed, the artist essentially painted delightful French-style genre scenes, but declined in a more ironic Italian version. In addition to the influences of Pietro Domenico Ollivero, those of Scipione Cignaroli, Domenico Gambone, and Carlo Filippo Brambilla are also very evident in his canvases; as well as those of Italianizing Flemings, such as Teodor Helmbreker and Pietro Maurizio Bolkman. Pittetti's creativity also found cues from the works of Watteau and Teniers, as well as those of Jean-Baptiste Oudry and certain canvases by Natoire.
His works, as in those analyzed, one can trace a meticulous completeness and attention to detail, with vaporous backgrounds that hark back to the coeval French tradition as an idea, along with Cignaroli as a rendering. In the pair of works examined there are links to the mundane features typical of his pictorial production, such as attention to contemporary fashion, particularly evident in the lady portrayed in the foreground while resting from hunting, and to narrative gestures. The two scenes, set in two different contexts, one related to the activities of the aristocracy, with the hunting party, and the other to a bivouac scene in an encampment, are united by the common gesture of the toast declined in one case, quietly, by the delicate damsel in the foreground, energetically instead by the soldier portrayed from behind.
The works, studied here, present many stylistic elements of Pittetti's composite world, expressed with delicate, elegant grace and countless points of contact with known works by the painter. Worth mentioning are the works that the painter executed for the Palazzina Reale of Stupinigi, where the presence of the lady harnessing a firearm recurs, surrounded by the faithful a pack of dogs, or the works in private collections where, Palaca's stylistic hallmark, her typical elongated and raised figures return as protagonists among the crowd that in part remains more anonymous.
- Creator:Angela Maria Pittetti detta Palanca (1690 - 1763, Italian)
- Dimensions:Height: 35.44 in (90 cm)Width: 27.96 in (71 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Milan, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2639213033662
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