ALESSANDRO LONGHI (attr. a) Lot n° 69

(Venice, 1733 - 1813) Portrait of a lady Oil on canvas, 63.5X53 cm Provenance: Florence, private collection The canvas depicts a lady dressed in a white and light blue robe, the style characters compare well with the mature production of Alessandro Longhi. The artist was a pupil of Giuseppe Nogari and influenced by Sebastiano Bombelli and Vittore Ghislandi. The unfolding of his activity saw him initially interpret devotional painting and then turn to portraiture, becoming by the sixth decade one of its best interpreters. Longhi's painting technique is chromatically vivid in tone, often devoid of drawing procedures, and the images appear an instinct of impression finely brought to a conclusion, without neglecting veils and transparencies to modulate the chromatic values, especially of the robes. Reference bibliography: E. Martini, La pittura del Settecento Veneto, Udine 1982, p. 106 R. Pallucchini, The portrait in the second half of the eighteenth century. Alessandro Longhi, in La Pittura nel Veneto. Il Settecento, Milan 1996, II, pp. 435-452