Mediterranean coastal view with figures and fishermen at sunset

Oil painting on canvas

Dimensions: 64 x 98 cm.

In gilded frame 77 x 112 cm.

The proposed work, depicting a valuable coastal landscape made brilliant by the warm lights of the sunset, is the work of the atelier of the Frenchman Charles François Grenier de Lacroix (Marseille 1700 - Berlin 1782), one of the greatest interpreters of eighteenth-century seascape painting . After his apprenticeship with Vernet in France, De Lacroix collaborated with the master for several years in Rome, where he is documented until 1760 and later he was certainly in Naples until 1776.

The coastal view, which is inspired by the suggestive coasts of the Mediterranean, illustrates a fascinating fantasy view with a castle perched and located on a steep promontory right next to the shore, animated by small and lively figures of fishermen, with a marked stylistic code, with their moored boats, which carry out daily activities and which contribute to making the scene dynamic.

Of particular quality are the cut with which the image is conceived and the warm chromatic tones of the coast lines, the boats and the characters, contrasted by the two blue patches of the sky. The result is an excellently executed creation, with a well conceived stage construction from the perspective point of view.

His ideal views of the Mediterranean coast are an admirable synthesis between realism and ornamental taste, a marine transposition of the eighteenth-century Arcadian sentiment from which a refined pictorial management is evident, capable of interpreting the brightness of the Mediterranean coasts with skilful transparent drafts and narrative aspects which will be an example for the second half of the eighteenth and for most of the nineteenth century.

His marinas were very fashionable at the time, a favorite genre of the nobility from Great Britain and Northern Europe who came to the South of the European continent on the Grand Tour and who often returned home with paintings as souvenirs. Therefore the works were not commissioned as simple decorative elements, but had to represent a personal gallery of experiences and images of the most significant sites encountered during the long stays.

The painting is in excellent condition with a beautiful gilded wooden frame.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The painting is sold with a certificate of authenticity and a descriptive iconographic card.

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