Italian or French painter, active in Italy; end of the XVII century.

Italian or French painter, active in Italy; late 17th century.
"Landscape."
Oil on canvas.
Possess 19th century frame.
Measurements: 36 x 46 cm; 54 x 65 cm (frame).
In this scene the author immortalizes a landscape of exuberant character in its composition captured with objective intention, but that nevertheless is shown to us in an evocative way, exalting values like the daily, the near and the known. Formally, the careful chromatic and light study stands out, the result of which is an image solidly built on an agile reading rhythm.
The classicist landscape was one of the novelties that characterized Italian painting in the seventeenth century, and from the first decades of the century a change in the interpretation of the landscape can be seen. This school will be characterized in the Baroque period by the depiction of lyrical scenes that evoke the Arcadian vision of the pastoral environment, without the pretension of recreating specific landscapes. Nature is therefore ordered by the artist and subjected to classical rules, in the search for an ideal natural order of classical roots. Thus, we find balanced horizontal compositions, in line with Bolognese classicism, and at the same time punctual yet exact arrangements of nature that relate to the painting of Caravaggio and the Nordic painters settled in Rome, two influences that converge, with the former predominating.