By Andrea Locatelli
Located in Sanremo, IT
This airy "Landscape", oil painting on canvas measuring 49 x 66 without frame and 60 x 80 cm with a coeval frame, with an opening on a hilly background, framed between two ancient twisted trees on the left, one with little foliage and the other truncated at the top, and a steep cliff on the right, covered by a low arboreal vegetation, is singularly characterized by the figurative group in the foreground on the right.
At a rock ledge are two soldiers, one standing with helmet, breastplate, red cloak and spear in his right hand, the other equally harnessed and the shaft in his left, seated from behind next to a grieving young man, with a bowed face. resting on the left hand. The inventiveness of which clearly refers to the figurative repertoire of Salvator Rosa, even with a direct take from one of his engravings (from the "Series of figurines", engraved by "Carolo Rubeo") for the young man, absorbed in his thoughts, generally considered by critics as a prisoner of the two armigers.
Even the landscape taste of the scene generically refers to Rosa, but with an evident more advanced representative transcription, the examination of which leads us with palpable evidence to the name of Andrea Locatelli...
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Mid-18th Century Italian School Andrea Locatelli Paintings
