Code:
34413
Framed
Expertise by prof. Dario Succi (storico dell'arte)
Rare and important painting by Antonio Carneo (Concordia Sagittaria 1637 - Portogruaro 1692). The subject depicts Amnon and Tamar referring to the episode of the Old Testament (II, Kings, 13-20) which is iconographically rare. Dario Succi recognizes this painting as "significant and interesting" and according to Luigi Lanzi ("Storia pittorica della Italia, Bassano 1809) Carneo was the greatest pictorial genius in Friuli after Pordenone. "The canvas examined here - writes Succi - should be placed towards the end of the seventh decade of the seventeenth century on the basis of the floating pictorial material that shapes Tamar's clothes and the plastic rendering of Amnon's body with a pinkish impasto soaked in light strokes. The artist outlines the story by making the figures of the two protagonists emerge from the skilfully chiaroscuro background (...) Particularly significant is the comparison with the canvas depicting Apollo and Marsyas, chronologically a couple of decades later and coming from the Caiselli collection in Udine (...) Equally pertinent is the reference to the figure of Mithridates inserted in the painting known by the title The Poison Test which, coming from the Castle of Tricesimo, was commissioned directly from the artist by a member of the Valentinis family"
Private sale