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18th Century Genre Scene Painting Oil on Canvas Attributed to Paolo Monaldi

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Paolo Monaldi (Rome, 1710 - after 1779), attr. Genre scene Oil on canvas, 34 x 25 cm With frame, 36 x 46 cm The canvas describes a moment of rest taken from the rural world: the strings of a lute plucked by an elderly man in the foreground cheer a woman with her child and a passer-by with his mule stopped to listen. The subject is typical of Paolo Monaldi, a painter born in Rome in 1710 and a pupil of the landscape painter Paolo Anesi; he is considered among the most lively, witty and appreciated singers of the Roman countryside of the eighteenth century, where the anecdotal vein joins the pastoral poetics. In the Roman artistic panorama it affirms itself by figuring 'the simple people of the countryside in their rural tranquility' (Busiri Vici 1976, p. 97), according to an illustrative address directly derived from the seventeenth-century iconographies of the bamboccianti. The painter's Arcadian-pastoral vision, however, detaches itself from the concrete and disenchanted vision of rural life, giving a sweetened translation of reality, but without ever regressing into the picturesque. The artist's openness to European-wide cultural solicitations is, however, modeled on the needs of the market which, in eighteenth-century Rome, sees in the Grand Tour travelers the main clientele, interested in local customs. Monaldi is placed in a temporal boundary area in the production of Souvenir d'Italie, whose following declination will be the literary transfiguration or the distorted nineteenth-century naturalism, devoid of moral or social commitment, made up of tarantella, serenades and plumed floats. For these reasons, his art is culturally appreciable, confirming the undisputed pictorial quality of the works. He was a painter of various patrician families. He painted some canvases for Palazzo Rospigliosi. Some of his works were requested for the villa of Ariccia and by the Barberinis, for whom he decorated the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. Other works by him can be found in Palazzo Braschi and the Galleria dell'Accademia di San Luca. Some parallels can be made with the canvases that appeared on the antiques market and depict a "genre scene" and the representation "frugal meal".

Dimensions:

Height: 14.18 in (36 cm)Width: 16.93 in (43 cm)Depth: 2.76 in (7 cm)

Materials and Techniques:

Canvas,Hand-Painted,Oiled,Painted

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

18th Century

Date of Manufacture:

18th Century

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.