Old European School (19th Century) - River Landscape

Oil on canvas. Canvas restretched in the traditional style. This landscape presents itself as a subtle fusion of influences, at the crossroads of Salvatore Rosa's romantic drama and the Flemish tradition. It captures an atmosphere of bucolic serenity tinged with chiaroscuro, evoking the wild and sublime nature of the Neapolitan school. Rosa's legacy is strongly manifested in the orography of the rocky promontories and the vegetation of gnarled trunks and dense foliage that frames the scene with an emotional charge imbued with profound mystery. The Flemish influence, meanwhile, is evident in the mastery of perspective, which guides the eye along a stream toward horizons populated by classical architecture and a multitude of folkloric figures on horseback. The entire composition is unified by a twilight light which, filtered through a sky of cottony clouds, bathes the canvas in golden and ochre tones, imbuing the work with that poetic nostalgia so characteristic of the idealized landscape. - Image dimensions without frame: 63 x 52 cm / 77 x 66.5 cm with an exclusive custom-carved wooden frame.