Rare Italian painting of the eighteenth century. Oil work on table depicting a mythological subject of great charm, Mercury delivers the little Bacchus to the nymphs of Monte Nisa. According to the myth Bacchus (or Dionysus for the Greeks) he was the son of Jupiter and the mortal semele. Juno, jealous and vindictive, convinced the woman to ask Jupiter to show herself in her divine form. When the god manifested the young woman, he was incinerated instantly but Jupiter managed to save their child, who saw in his thigh. Then to protect him from Juno he entrusted the little to Mercury who brought him to a distant place where they grew among the nymphs of Monte Nisa.
The work of remarkable pictorial quality attributable to the great faithful painter Fischetti (1732-1792). The most important protagonists of the Neapolitan eighteenth century is famous for having frescoed the palace of Caserta and his works are characterized by allegorical or narrative subjects sacred and mythological scenes with an elegant and refined racoco sensitivity.
The theatrical composition shows all the characteristics of Fischer's painting: the dynamism of the figures, the chromatic wealth and the diffused brightness, enhanced by a precious gold background. (The painting is not currently accompanied by Expertise, but it is possible to request it upon payment of the related additional costs). Work already restored with a new park on the back and recovery of color in small points. It has some old worm holes, now not active, overall in good conservative state. Painted light h 68 x l 73 cm.
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