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Lot 1289 Dα

Giovanni Battista Crosato - Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Auction 1132 - overview Cologne
18.05.2019, 11:00 - Fine Art
Estimate: 30.000 € - 40.000 €
Result: 24.800 € (incl. premium)

Giovanni Battista Crosato

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Oil on canvas. 61 x 63 cm.

Giovanni Battista Crosato's style of painting is deeply rooted in the Venetian “settecento” tradition and is especially influenced by the works of Sebastiano Ricci and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo as well as the elegant forms of Veronese, which were admired throughout Europe. Venetian artists set the tone throughout the entire Continent, from Schleissheim to Würzburg, St. Petersburg to Vienna, Dresden to Brühl and Madrid. Crosato profited from this high demand, receiving commissions from the residential city of Turin, where he created works for Stupingi Palace and the villa of the Queen. Later he also travelled to work in Vienna.

In the present work, Crosato paints his flickering brushstrokes in a colour palette dominated by pale red and blue and captures the dramatic moment of the composition with a practiced lightness which was praised by Denis Ton in his monograph on the artist when writing about this cabinet painting.

Provenance

Italian private collection.

Literature

D. Ton: Giambattista Crosato. Pittore del Rococò europeo, Scripta (Trento). 2013, cat.13.