Pittore tedesco o austrico

oil on oval canvas, framed, some defects

cm 70x57

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 work, which represents the most valuable and interesting piece of a series of female portraits perhaps once more extensive, shows a gentlewoman, with beautiful and regular features, dressed in a very refined silk dress of various colors on which they are pinned, all height of the neckline, a fleshy centifolia rose and brooches or pendants with white pear-shaped pearls. Defined with high pictorial rigor, which admirably highlights above all the realistic description of the face, the work, defined with characters decidedly foreign to the Tuscan and perhaps also Italian artistic world, appears to be assignable to an Austrian or German artist, perhaps active in Tuscany in the second half of the eighteenth century, sensitive essentially to the lessons of Johann Zoffany or Wenzel Werlin, masters documented for some years in Tuscany at the grand-ducal court of the Habsburg-Lorraine.