Lot N. 350
Giuseppe Antonio Fabbrini (1749 - 1799)
Male portrait in armor with cross of Saint Stephen and red cloth
(1749-1799)
oil on canvas, framed, some defects
cm 86,5x72
The following technical sheet of the work was created by Professor Sandro Bellesi as part of the inventory of the paintings of the Fattoria Franceschini.
The painting is part of a group of three works, in a good state of conservation, which depict characters who lived in the second half of the 18th century and perhaps portrayed from life, belonging to the Pitti family, only one of which indicated by the name on the canvas: Neri Pitti. The paintings, of beautiful executive quality, are carried out with considerable technical skill, as is evident from the attention paid to the description of the faces, to the care given to the armor with shiny metallic effects and, again, to the material rendering of the scarlet silk drapes.
The result of a refinedly eclectic artistic culture linked above all to the French and German schools of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the three works were probably created by Giuseppe Antonio Fabbrini, a pupil in Rome of Anton Raphael Mengs, artist, born in 1749 in Florence and there died in 1799, much appreciated by the Habsburg-Lorraine grand dukes.
The three works will be studied in a publication by Sandro Bellesi.
The painting is part of a group of three works, in a good state of conservation, which depict characters who lived in the second half of the 18th century and perhaps portrayed from life, belonging to the Pitti family, only one of which indicated by the name on the canvas: Neri Pitti. The paintings, of beautiful executive quality, are carried out with considerable technical skill, as is evident from the attention paid to the description of the faces, to the care given to the armor with shiny metallic effects and, again, to the material rendering of the scarlet silk drapes.
The result of a refinedly eclectic artistic culture linked above all to the French and German schools of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the three works were probably created by Giuseppe Antonio Fabbrini, a pupil in Rome of Anton Raphael Mengs, artist, born in 1749 in Florence and there died in 1799, much appreciated by the Habsburg-Lorraine grand dukes.
The three works will be studied in a publication by Sandro Bellesi.