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Francesco Foschi (ancona, 1710 - Rome, 1780)
Fantastic winter view painted by Francesco Foschi

$27,696.29List Price

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Francesco Foschi (Ancona, 1710 - Rome, 1780) Fantastic winter view with ruins Oil on canvas, 98 x 140 cm Framed, 111 x 154 cm Francesco Foschi from Ancona was the greatest interpreter in Italy of the distinctly northern genre of the winter landscape. Known as Chevalier Foschi, he was born in Ancona in 1710. After a brief apprenticeship in Fano in Francesco Mancini's workshop, he moved to Rome in 1729 with his family, where he probably remained until the 1740s. In 1744 he married Constance Scirman in the Eternal City. There is no biographical information for the years 1745-1763, although it can be assumed that the painter had returned to Le Marche. This hypothesis is supported by the existence of a large canvas depicting a Panorama of Loreto, with the figures of Abundance and Justice and the portraits of Leo X, Sixtus V and Benedict XIV (Loreto, Museum of the Apostolic Palace), which was executed, according to Zampetti on commission from Benedict XIV Lambertini, who had been bishop of Ancona from 1727 to 1731. Here the painter not only devoted himself to his art, but also embarked on a successful business as a merchant. In particular, he collaborated assiduously with Count Raimondo Bonaccorsi, his patron, assisting him in building a valuable art collection, which included the famous series of Ovidian paintings. However, the fame he enjoyed among his contemporaries is mainly related to his winter landscapes, the earliest known example of which, signed and dated 1750, is preserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Grenoble. From 1755 he moved to Pesaro and then returned permanently to Rome around 1764, as an inhabitant on the third floor of a house in Piazza di Spagna, until his death in early 1780. His exceptional skill in painting snowy landscapes was so renowned that his obituary, published on March 11 in the "Ordinary of the Chracas" (or "Diary of Rome"), celebrated him as " the famous painter of winter landscapes." In these works, which gave him deserved fame, he tells of a harsh and rigid, but not inhospitable, nature. An icy environment in which man goes about his activities almost unperturbed by the severity of the climate around him. His snowy scenery dotted with bare trees, small mountain landscapes with Nordic-flavored sloping roofs, frozen lakes, and wayfarers are imbued with an intense lyricism and a melancholy vision of nature that can well be described as pre-romantic. Some of his works are kept at important Italian and European museums: for example, a "Winter Landscape with Walkers" is at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid or the Pinacoteca Civica in Ancona. The refined painting examined sees the careful observation and sophisticated rendering of the atmospheric datum, rendered with different silvery-gray variations, balanced by the greens and browns of the vegetation. On the left bank of the river, a figure heads toward a cave where some figures are warming themselves in the warmth of a fire. On the upper right, perched on a small cliff, are some houses while high, rocky mountains are described in the distance. The particular uniqueness of the present painting is the imaginative addition of two strange monuments: the ruins of an ancient amphitheater (with not too hidden reminiscences to the Colosseum) and behind the trees what appears to be an allusion to the Cestia pyramid. The item is in good condition

Creator:
Francesco Foschi (ancona, 1710 - Rome, 1780)
Dimensions:
Height: 38.59 in (98 cm)Width: 55.12 in (140 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Period:
18th Century and Earlier
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Milan, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2639214520932

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