View Of Lake Orta And San Giulio Island From Orta San Giulio, Fm Granet (circle Of)

French School of the first part of the 19th century, circle of François Marius GRANET (1775-1849)

View of Lake D'Orta and San Giulio Island from Orta San Giulio, Italy, Lakes regions

Oil on panel

Size at a glance: 25 cm x 52,5cm - Framed: 42 cm x 69,5 cm Canal frame from the 1st Empire period

A magisterial, romantic and realistic Italian landscape representing Lake Orta, jewel of the Lake District; more confidential than Lake Como and Lake Maggiore but equally splendid and familiar to famous artists such as Nietzsche or Balzac inspired by its serenity. Orta is also the place of creation of the Nietzsche masterpiece "Thus spoke Zarathustra". Easily identifiable as its topography has finally been preserved in two centuries, we recognize the pier of the city of Orta San Giulio (south of Lake Orta) backed by a palace, a ark and a church, and less than 500m away the island of San Giulio with its peaceful basilica, lined with the majestic Piedmont range.

The divinely romantic atmosphere of Lake Orta has been perfectly captured by the artist whose approach is close to François Marius Granet, master of landscape, curator at the Louvre, who, born in Aix en Provence, student of Constantine d ' Aix and David, a friend of Ingres, stayed nearly twenty years in Rome and married an Italian. This landscape made in "open air" - but not recomposed in a workshop to better idealize it - departs from the painted work of Valenciennes. The treatment of light, finely analyzed and restored by the artist who had to stay in Orta, fruit of a long observation and decomposition of its peculiarities, follows from this pictorial approach which gives primacy to this sensitive painting of the moment , here probably shortly after the dawn's glow. It is this moment that is both unique and typical of an Orta atmosphere that is shared.

Our painting has the soft light "golden-orange" as a fondue in a sfumato peculiar to some works both Italian and Italian Granet (confers Pumpkin harvest to the country house Malvalat (1796) or the Arc de Volta Toretta near of Tivoli, but also the strong sense of architecture, particularly religious In his painted work, Granet has indeed often highlighted the Christian religious heritage with a taste for strongly architectural compositions to which he added a mastery of chiaroscuro (...)

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