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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm TischbeinGerman Tischbein Figurative Nude Mithology Painting 18th centuryoil canvas1784-1785 ca
1784-1785 ca
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The painting–thin oil on canvas, in some parts unfinished−can be referred to the hand of the German painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. It should be dated in the years between 1784-1785, in the middle of the artist’s second stay in Rome which began in 1783.
Trying to pose a hypothesis about the subject described in the canvas, of the woman that quickly jumps on the horse and of the man who indicates the way, we can possibly retrace a passage of the drama Iphigenia in Tauris written by Goethe in prose form in 1779 and afterwards rewritten in verse form in 1787 precisely when he was living in Rome and was staying in Tischbein’s home. Iphigenia is for many years confined by Artemis in Tauris, close to the sea, as a priestess in a temple dedicated to the goddess. The temple of Artemis is in the middle of a sacred wood and Iphigenia attends to it. Thoas, the king of Tauris, after suspending for a long time the human sacrifices consecrated to Artemis due to the reluctance of the priestess herself who viewed with horror the practice of sacrificing foreigners arriving in Tauris, decided, also to appease the goddess, to resume the rituals with the offer of two foreigners just found on the coast (in reality Orestes, brother of Iphigenia, and his cousin Pylades) and he sends Arkas to announce his arrival at the temple. Arkas and Iphigenia have a long dialogue, at the end of which the counsellor of the king pushes Iphigenia to run towards Thoas who is approaching the temple.
Between 1784 and 1785, it can also be placed the painting.
Excerpt of the expertise by professor Francesco Leone
- Creator:Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751-1829, German)
- Creation Year:1784-1785 ca
- Dimensions:Height: 19.7 in (50.04 cm)Width: 23.2 in (58.93 cm)
- Medium:
- Period:1780-1789
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Florence, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1240210334522
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
Tischein father, Johann Conrad, was the carpenter of the convent in Haina and his uncle-who was his first teacher-was an artist in Hamburg. From 1772 to 1773 he travelled in Holland studying the Old Masters and after 1777 he worked as a portrait painter in Berlin and became a member of the Masonic Lodge.
He moved to Rome in 1779 and continued his studies-thanks to a stipend from the Kunsthochschule Kassel-progressing from the Rococo of his early works to the Classicism of his maturity ones. After a turbolent time that he spent in Zurich, he returned in Rome with a grant from Duke Ernest II, obtained upon the recommendation of his friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, with whom travelled in Naples in 1787. During his last ten years there, he was director of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli. He left following the French occupation, when the anti-royalist Parthenopean Republic was established.
After 1808, he worked for Grand Duke Peter I and he lived in Eutin untill he died.
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