Oil on canvas, cm. 63,5x97
Letter of Giancarlo Sestieri dated 13 February 2007; letter of Didier Bodart on November 30th 2006.
According to Giancarlo Sestieri this "Arcadian landscape" is a "qualitative testimony" of the painting of Francesco Zuccarelli during the influence of Marco Ricci, Venetian landscape artist, who was decisive in the formation of ours after his transfer to Venice in 1732, where in 1736 was already enrolled in the Fraglia, the guild of painters.
Zuccarelli made a fundamental contribution to the genre of the "Arcadian landscape", at that time also literary genre, and its success was such that, after the protection of the English consul J. Smith, he moved to London where five years later he became a member of the Free Society, as a sign of its success. In 1762 he returned to Venice and was "acclared" as a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, but in 1764 he returned to London, spending a decade there and becoming a member of the Royal Academy participating in all the exhibitions. In 1764 he left London and moved permanently to Florence, protected by the collector F. M. Gaburri, remaining there until his death.