Italian Painter (18th Century) - Square Show With The Mountebank.

Italian painter (18th century) - Square Show with the Mountebank.

74.5 x 62.5 cm (without frame) - 86 x 73.5 cm (with frame).

Oil on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame.

The scene depicts a lively square performance attended by a mixed crowd of townspeople, soldiers, and onlookers gathered around a makeshift stage. At its centre, a figure in quasi-military dress, tricorn hat, blue coat, and gold-trimmed red waistcoat, gestures emphatically before a large white drape hung as a backdrop. Beside him, a second figure in green holds a live animal, most likely a dog, while on the right a man on horseback enters the scene. The composition, densely populated and constructed on several spatial planes, is handled with the ease characteristic of eighteenth-century genre painting from the Venetian or Lombard tradition, with lively attention to the characterisation of popular types and the rendering of period costume. The subject belongs to a well-established iconographic tradition of the 1700s, from Tiepolo to Longhi, reflecting bourgeois interest in scenes of everyday life and popular entertainment.

Condition report: Original canvas. Good state of conservation of the pictorial surface, with signs of ageing and wear.

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