Oil on canvas.
The large composition proposes a landscape with a large tree at its centre. to surmount with its sparse branches the countryside below, crossed by a watercourse and animated by various figures of common people intent on activity or rest; at the top right stands a fortress, which dominates the valley.
Already attributed to the Marche artist Peruzzini, the painting can certainly be traced back to its context, due to the quick and poorly aggregated pictorial strokes.
Antonio Francesco specialized in landscape painting, undergoing the influence of Salvator Rosa and landscape artists such as Pietro Montanini and Pandolfo Reschi, and further influences also came from Nordic painters active in Italy, especially from Pieter Mulier known as Tempesta. In his first works the originality of his painting can already be distinguished given his rapid application and an intense and brilliant chromatic timbre.
Antonio Francesco Peruzzini's long artistic relationship with Alessandro Magnasco began in the early nineties, following their meeting in Milan, where Peruzzini had settled; from this period onwards his painting seems to fall apart, through forms that become more dynamic and light, almost fantastic, to finally arrive at a style marked by an ever greater disintegration of the forms of nature and their movement.
Restored and relined, the painting is presented in a period frame.
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PLATINUM Seller in Milano, Italy
