19th Century Italian Landscape With Fountain After Giuseppe Zais

Landscape with Fountain after  Giuseppe Zais, inspired by the painting  of the Venetian artist executed around 1765 and exibited at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, measuring 132 x 80 cm. This Arcadian landscape was executed in the mid-1800s, oil painted on cardboard and transferred to wood panel. It is in good condition within an antique carved and gilded wooden frame, reduced at the corners. The composition of the work features two figures in the foreground on the edge of a river, with a classical fountain in carved white marble in the centre, which illuminates the painting and conveys the harmonious and serene atmosphere of the everyday life of the characters that animate the scene, enclosed on the right by architectural elements. To the left of the painting, a landscape with architecture can be glimpsed. Giuseppe Zais was a painter from Belluno during the Rococo period and a member of the Arcadian school. He was a pupil of Francesco Zuccarelli, with whom he shared the title of best painter of the genre. He painted many landscapes and battle scenes and was a member of the Academy of Painting in 1774.