Description
European painter in the Chinese manner (18th century) – Oriental scene with pagoda.
Oil on canvas, in carved and gilded wooden frame.
The composition, executed on a black ground in keeping with a technique widespread in European decorative painting of Oriental taste in the 18th century, depicts two figures in traditional Chinese dress in a landscape animated by a pagoda, palm trees and lush vegetation, with a bird in flight in the background. The use of deep black as the dominant chromatic field, combined with gold and red details, lends the work a decorative character fully in keeping with the chinoiseriefashion that pervaded European artistic production throughout the eighteenth century.
Condition report: Lined canvas. Good state of conservation of the pictorial surface, with signs of ageing and wear.
