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Francesco Lavagna
By Francesco Lavagna, Four still lifes with vases of flowers

XVII Century

$6,707.34
£4,970.51
€5,600
CA$9,156.80
A$10,186.56
CHF 5,339.92
MX$124,477.30
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DKK 42,637.91
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Francesco Lavagna (Naples, 1684 - 1749) Still life with vase of flowers (4) Oil on oval canvas, 8.5 x 13.5 cm Framed, 18.5 x 22 cm The work is not signed The four Still lifes with vase of flowers examined can be likened to the production of the Neapolitan painter Francesco Lavagna (Naples, 1684 - 1749). There are few documents on the artist, whose artistic and existential parabola could not yet be defined with absolute certainty. Often, Francesco Lavagna is confused with Giuseppe Lavagna, with whom he almost certainly shares a kinship: the latter, is mentioned by the biographer of Neapolitan painters, sculptors and architects Bernardo de Dominici as a pupil of the great painter Andrea Belvedere. Francesco is a painter having a style particularly close to that of Gaspare Lopez (?- Naples, c. 1732), an important artist responsible for the execution of marvelous still lifes in the Neapolitan area. Since Lopez is recorded among Andrea Belvedere's pupils, some scholars believe, based on the stylistic analysis of the works, that-even in the total absence of documentary footholds-the educational path of Francesco Lavagna may have been the same. Lavagna's figure has recently been reconstructed in greater detail thanks to the discovery of two canvases that passed through the antiques market in the early 1980s, one of which is signed in clear "Fran. Blackboard P." These works have made it possible, thanks to the many stylistic references to canvases that have appeared on the market, to reconstruct, still in a partial way, the productive history of the artist, who is configured as an elegant interpreter of the new pictorial trend of Neapolitan still life, closer to the French taste, more decorative and imaginative. Lavagna favors compositions formed by cascades of flowers and fruit, usually set outdoors, accompanied by vases, pitchers, ancient ruins, statues of female figures and animals. Another of the painter's distinguishing traits-which can also be found in the series of paintings under consideration-is the addition of ceramics with a delicate bluish hue, not only a chromatic expedient with a decorative purpose but evidence of the refined taste for craft production that arrived in the great southern Mediterranean ports, such as Naples. In this series of four canvases, small in size but with great technical-executive skill, the painter offers a series of particularly vivid and distinctive still life pieces. In the pretty porcelain vases with blue decorations, the colorful flowers turn out to be arranged with apparent randomness; among them one can recognize large roses, white and lilac carnations with frayed petals, white small bellflowers and tulips. The color score based on the muted colors of blues, greens and pinks, with flashes of intense reds, harks back to other examples of the Neapolitan painter's output. The bright, iridescent colors of the beautiful flowers that stand out, in an extremely free-form pattern, in the four small vases with a sky-blue decoration are reminiscent, among others, of the Natura morta con vaso di fiori (Still Life with Vase of Flowers) in the Museo Civico di Asola, near Mantua; the rapid, full-bodied brushstrokes that distinguish the execution of the small oval canvases, on the other hand, seem to relate directly to a work by the master currently part of a private collection in Bergamo.
  • Creator:
    Francesco Lavagna (1684 - 1724)
  • Creation Year:
    XVII Century
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 3.15 in (8 cm)Width: 5.12 in (13 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    8x13 cm Price: $6,707
  • Medium:
    Oil,Canvas
  • Period:
    18th Century and Earlier
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Milan, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2639216454552

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