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Francesco Fontebasso (Venice 1709 - 1769)
18th Century By Francesco Fontebasso Allegory of Vanity Oil on Canvas

18th century

$85,868.20
£63,894.78
€72,200
CA$117,978.18
A$131,673.81
CHF 69,275.46
MX$1,599,473.34
NOK 878,228.40
SEK 821,911.74
DKK 549,630.99

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Francesco Salvatore Fontebasso (Venice, Italy, 1707 - 1769) Title: Allegory of Vanity Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 74.5 x 98 cm - with frame 95 x 119 cm With a "cassetta" frame in gilded and carved wood Expertise by Professor Egidio Martini Publications: G. M. Guidetti, in From Sacro to Profano. The Giorgio Baratti Art Collection from Milan, catalogue of the exhibition curated by D. Mitrulevičiūtė, G. M. Guidetti (National Museum Palace of Grand Dukes of Lithuania, 16th February - 27th September 2020), Vilnius 2020, pp. 410-413. Francesco Fontebasso (1707-1769) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period of Venice. He was the apprentice of Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734), but he was also strongly influenced by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Fontebasso became, together with Tiepolo, the painter most in demand for pictorial cycles in the palazzi and villas of the Venetian nobility. He mainly worked in Padua, Treviso and Trento, and in 1761 he went to Saint Petersburg where he produced ceiling paintings and decorations for the Winter Palace. This Allegory of Vanity of great pictorial quality was the subject of an expertise in 1984 by Egidio Martini who attributed it to Francecso Fontebasso, presenting it as a certain and typical work by this leading figure of eighteenth-century Venice. The picture shows two little putti, and the composition presents a magisterial chromatic balance, based on a limited but highly sophisticated range of greys and blues, yellow-gold and red.
  • Creator:
    Francesco Fontebasso (Venice 1709 - 1769) (1709 - 1769)
  • Creation Year:
    18th century
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 29.34 in (74.5 cm)Width: 38.59 in (98 cm)Depth: 1.97 in (5 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    without frame 74.5 x 98 cm - with frame 95 x 119 cmPrice: $85,868
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  • Gallery Location:
    Milano, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1701213655712

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