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18th Cent., Italian Painting, Loth and the daughters, att. to Giuseppe Gambarini
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Giuseppe Gambarini (Bologna, 17 March 1680 - Casalecchio di Reno, 11 September 1725)
Loth and the daughters
Oil on canvas; Measurements: cm H 73 x W 93; frame H 88 x W 108 x D 5,5
The painting, of beautiful pictorial quality, depicts the biblical scene of Lot and his daughters, with Sodom set on fire in the background, and is stylistically attributable to the italian painter Giuseppe Gambarini (Italy, Bologna, 17 March 1680 - Casalecchio di Reno, 11 September 1725).
The canvas shows in the center Lot sitting and already drunk, depicted according to traditional iconography, old, gray and with long gray boat. With his left hand he grabs the wine flask that one of his daughters offers him. She is depicted kneeling and resting on large boulders of stone, described as an architectural base, dressed in a voluminous deep blue mantle, her hair covered with a humble headdress made of a knotted cloth; look at the viewer, as if to want to involve him directly in the scene. The other daughter is described on the left, from the back to the observer, with a bare back and dark hair gathered by a red ribbon. She too is intent on serving her father a cup in which to pour the wine. Around them a duck placed on a cloth, some bread and another wine flask enrich the composition describing a banquet in progress. The scene is set outdoors, where only a large tent supported by branches arranged in a hut serves as a shelter to the figures. In the background a forest landscape blends chromatically with the blue sky. To the right in the distance, is described the city of Sodom, already destroyed and on fire. Lot’s wife and the mother of the two sisters is visible at the gates of the city, already transformed into a salt statue.
The biblical episode is narrated in the book of Genesis (19:10): the patriarch Lot, grandson of Abraham, gave hospitality in his house to two angels of male appearance, offering their virgin daughters to the crowd of Sodom, to save the two angels.
These hindered the crowd to give Lot’s family time to get away from the city of Sodom, located near the Dead Sea, before God destroyed it to wipe out the sin that possessed it, by a rain of fire and brimstone. During the escape, Lot’s wife disobeyed the divine command, which warned her not to look back at the burning city and was turned into a salt statue.
Lot and his daughters arrived at Zoar, taking refuge in a mountain cave. The two girls, believing that their family was the last survivor on earth, made their father drunk, joining him, without his knowledge, for two nights in a row, to give a future to the human race.
The incestuous act is depicted in the work in question discreetly: the artist subtly highlights the consequences of the drunkenness of Lot and the daughters are outlined gracefully in their posing to him with seductive doing.
Stylistically the work is attributable with reasonable certainty to Giuseppe Gambarini. The painter was born in 1680 in Bologna to a family of modest conditions. Around 1693 he became a pupil of Girolamo Negri, a painter active in the workshop of Lorenzo Pasinelli, and here he met Giampietro Zanotti, who, as well as a fellow student, was his first biographer. Later he moved to Benedetto Gennari, nephew of Guercino, where he had the opportunity to incorporate that naturalism that would lead him to collect the lesson of Giuseppe Maria Crespi and to devote himself mainly to genre painting. The almost total lack of precise chronological references related to the pictorial production of Gambarini makes the reconstruction of his artistic career very problematic. He probably started as a figurehead for perspective decorations. In 1709 he went to Vienna, active in the city palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy; he then returned to Bologna, where, in 1709, he was elected Clementine academic. In the works of a little later prevails the naturalistic imprint that bends in a warlike sense the first Pasinellian formation. In 1712-13 he went to Rome where he had the opportunity to get to know in depth the genre painting that in the city, starting from the bamboccianti, had received wide consensus; in this cultural context fits the choice, after returning to Bologna, to treat humble subjects. To this must be added the influence exerted by the painting of Crespi. On 21 December 1716 the painter was appointed «figure director» of the Accademia Clementina. Gambarini died on 11 September 1725 in the Samperi palace in Casalecchio di Reno, near Bologna.
The calm and classicist style that distinguishes his works from his second Bolognese period is also found in the work object of this study that appears well balanced in composition and chromatic study, very pleasant and beautiful scenic effect.
Soon the historical-artistic study of the work will be included.
- Attributed to:Giuseppe Gambarini (Painter)
- Dimensions:Height: 34.65 in (88 cm)Width: 42.52 in (108 cm)Depth: 2.37 in (6 cm)
- Style:Baroque (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:Early 18th Century
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU4405237221282
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