Description
Venetian painter (19th century) – Bathers on the Lagoon.
Oil on canvas, in carved and gilded wooden frame.
The scene depicts a moment of everyday life on the Venetian lagoon: a boat with several figures occupies the centre of the composition, with a young diver standing on the bow, poised to jump. In the background, sailing boats animate a lagoon beneath a bright, veiled sky. The loose brushwork and the palette, dominated by cool tones of water and sky, recall the lagoon landscape tradition of late 19th-century Venice, in the orbit of Guglielmo Ciardi and Pietro Fragiacomo.
Condition report: Relined canvas. Good condition of the pictorial surface.
