17th Century Cavalry Battle Scene, Manner Of Pandolofo Reschi (1643-1699)

Manner of Pandolofo Reschi (1643-1699)

Title: 17th Century Cavalry Battle Scene

Dimensions with frame: 172cm x 120cm x 6cm

Dimensions of work itself: 150 x 100

Date: circa 1660-1690

Medium: Oil on canvas

A superb and extremely large 17th-century Italian old master oil-on-canvas depicting a cavalry skirmish between two groups of cavaliers in an atmospheric landscape.

The work is Italian and is very close to the work of Pandolofo Reschi (1643-1699). It needs a new light cleaning and has some light, stable age craquelure throughout. The canvas was lined probably around 100 years ago and is in good tension. The painting retains lovely tonality.

Pandolfo Reschi was born in Gdansk but from an early age he moved to Rome where he began his brilliant career following the style of Salvator Rosa, even if his real teacher was the Flemish-Italianized Livio Mehus. With Mehus and Rosa he refined his skills as a battle painter and was later taken to the workshop by the Borgognone, even if his main occupation was that of a genre painter.

The decisive turning point in his career came after his transfer to Florence, around the middle of 1660, where he continued his studies with Livio Mehus. After a decade he was now an established and highly coveted painter, so much so that in 1670 he was hired by the Medici court as protege of Cardinal Francesco Maria de Medici, with whom he lived from 1680 until the end of his days.

His paintings were highly appreciated and ordered by the major Tuscan noble families of the time, such as the Marquises Gerini and the Corsini princes, who loved to furnish their residences with their large animated landscapes.

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