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SILVER Seller in Napoli, Italia
Oil painting on canvas made in France in the second half of the 19th century depicting a banquet in the countryside. There are several characters portrayed in the open countryside among architectural ruins, caught in a joyful picture of daily life animated by the carefree joie de vivre typical of the French aristocracy. The painting is inspired by the so-called "gallant scenes," a theme that became so prominent in European pictorial culture as early as the first decades of the 18th century that it almost had the dignity of a real genre. It reflects a modus vivendi of the high society of the time, accustomed to the pleasures of life, to the affluence of courtly wealth, amidst amusements, whims and delights of various kinds. Clothes are those of the 18th-century tradition even though the painting was made in the second half of the 19th century; the depiction is in an almost nostalgic key. The painting has a coeval French wood frame covered with gold leaf.
ID: 12351-1680084485-59924
