Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (xviii) - Fantastic Landscape With A Citadel And Equestrian Statue.

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (Palmanova 1762 - Milan 1844) - Fantastic landscape with a citadel and equestrian statue.

35 x 62 cm (without frame) - 53 x 80 cm (with frame).

Oil on canvas, in a gilt wood frame.

The painting depicts a fantasy capriccio landscape in which a citadel perched on a rocky outcrop dominates the centre of the composition, reflected in a stretch of water animated by sailing vessels. On the left, an equestrian statue on a tall pedestal rises above a wooded promontory, while in the foreground figures of fishermen and a grey horse complete the scene with easy naturalism. The warm sunset light, shading from pink to blue across the sky, unifies the whole and lends the view a quietly melancholic, dreamlike quality. The characteristic vivacity of the staffage figures and the fluency of the atmospheric rendering point confidently to Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, one of the most original interpreters of Venetian vedutism in the late eighteenth century.

Condition report: Relined canvas. Good condition of the painted surface.

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