Alessandro Magnasco, genannt „Il Lissandrino“,... Lot n° 253

SATYRS AND FAUNS Oil on canvas. Doubled. 94 x 135 cm. In gilded frame. Magnasco received his training in Milan under Filippo Abbiati (1640-1715); he worked in Milan for most of his life, but is also known to have worked in Venice and Florence. In addition to history paintings, he also painted genre pictures, cappriccios and fantastic landscapes with figural staffage, to which the present painting belongs. It shows numerous satyrs and fauns celebrating a great feast in a landscape with pyramids at the feet of a statue of a god. They are playing music, worshipping the statue and paying homage to it with incense and fire. Magnasco, whose work can be classified between Baroque and Rococo, draws the bodies in a loose, confident but also wild style, which emphasizes the impression of an orgy and contrasts with the calm and less impasto-painted landscape in the background. This creates a delightful tension that makes the painting so charming. (1400906) (10) Alessandro Magnasco,also known as "Il Lissandrino", ca. 1667 Genoa - 1749 ibid, attributed SATYRS AND FAUNS Oil on canvas. Relined. 94 x 135 cm.