Maria Giovanna Battista Clementi, known as La... Lot 19

Maria Giovanna Battista Clementi, known as La Clementina (Turin 1692 - 1761) Portrait of a little girl (Savoy?) Oil on canvas 98 x 62 cm An almost identical canvas, with the sword hilt on the right, was presented at auction at Daguerre S.V.V. on 11/20/2018 as the probable portrait of Victor Amadeus of Savoy. He embarked on an artistic career at a very young age, perfecting himself at the workshop of court painter Giovanni Battista Curlando. Later, fundamental to her first trials as an independent painter was the Swedish painter Martin van Meytens, whom she met in Rome. Back in Turin, she began to portray successfully both at court and in Europe, where her Savoy portraits were sent as gifts of representation to the ruling families. She married Bartolomeo Clementi, to whom she owes her nickname, Clementina, which she used as a painter after marriage. Attentive to the details of clothing, her works are the mundane chronicle of her time; indeed, one observes fine fabrics, their fashions, decoration and colors typical of that elegant and opulent era. Maria Giovanna Battista Clementi, also called La Clementina (Turin 1692 - 1761) Portrait of a Little Girl (Savoy?) Oil on canvas 98 x 62 cm An almost identical canvas, with the sword hilt on the right, was presented at auction at Daguerre S.V.V. dated 11/20/2018, as the probable portrait of Vittorio Amedeo of Savoy.