Child Jesus ​​painted On Canvas – Giuseppe Angeli

Delightful oil painting on canvas depicting Baby Jesus delicately holding a small cross in his right hand while, with his left hand, he holds a small basket containing the symbols of the passion.
The author of this painting can be identified as Giuseppe Angeli, the most gifted of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta's students, so much so that he is documented as the director of his very active workshop. From the master, Angeli draws that chromatic brightness, leaving out the pathetic components, exhibiting a soft application and a softness of color in tune with delicate accords, silvery pinks, deep blues and soft greys, with a sensual and suggestive language. Visible are the updates deduced from the art of Rosalba Carriera and Jacopo Amigoni which will characterize the mature production of the artist, who, in 1757, will take on the role of master of the nude at the Academy. These are the years to which the execution of this beautiful canvas refers. The subject portrayed here represents a model used several times by our painter since his first tests; recognizable, for example, in the altarpiece with the blessed Gerolamo Miani and some orphans praying around the crucifix of the Venetian church of Santa Maria dei derelitti e dell'ediliziatto and in the painting with Girls tickling a sleeping boy, published by Egidio Martini in 1981.
reference bibliography:
E. Martini, Painting of the Venetian eighteenth century, Udine, 1981, fig. 308
T. Pignatti, Giuseppe Angeli, catalog of the exhibition Giambattista Piazzetta and his time, his school, Venice, 1983, ad vocim
R. Pallucchini in Painting in the Veneto. Il Settecento, Milan 1996, II, pp. 161 - 162, fig. 227

Measurement cm. 47x38 (62x52.5 cm with frame)