Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (Salò 1687 - Venice... Lot 55

Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (Salò 1687 - Venice 1771) Animated view along the Brenta Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm The work, with very slight variations, is identical to the canvas passed at auction on 05/12/2017 at Sotheby's in London. The latter was published as a pendant with another view of the Brenta both by Filippo Pedrocco, catalog of the exhibition Le immagini della Brenta (p. 115 fig. 8) and by Federica Spadotto in the monograph dedicated to the painter (p. 295 fig. 107a); the scholar indicates the existence of a third version preserved at the Museo Civico di Bassano del Grappa. After an initial apprenticeship with Antonio Calza, he went to Venice, where, with Canaletto, Pittoni, Piazzetta and Balestra, he collaborated on the background landscapes for Tombeaux des Princes commissioned in 1725 by Owen McSwiny, which glorified some of the figures of British history. From the same period are the Landscapes preserved at Buckingham Palace, where the artist shows the influence of the Baroque landscape of Marco Ricci and Alessandro Magnasco. Later Cimaroli joined Canaletto's art by developing an important series of Venetian views and views of the Venetian hinterland, especially along the peaceful course of the Brenta River between Venice and Padua where the nobility had sumptuous villas erected. He lived and worked in England acclaimed by the nobility for his rural and Venetian views. Like Giuseppe Zais and Francesco Zuccarelli he is considered one of the greatest examples of Arcadian landscape painting of the Venetian school. Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (Salò 1687 - Venice 1771) Animated View Along the Brenta Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm The artwork, with very slight variations, is identical to the canvas auctioned on 05/12/2017 at Sotheby's in London. The latter was published in conjunction with another view of the Brenta both by Filippo Pedrocco, catalog of the exhibition Le immagini della Brenta (page 115 fig. 8) and by Federica Spadotto in the monograph dedicated to the painter (page 295 fig. 107a); the scholar indicates the existence of a third version preserved in the Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa.