Offered by Antichità Castelbarco
Madonna in glory with child surrounded by two angels
Workshop of Francesco De Mura (Naples, 1696 - Naples, 1782)
Attributable to Pietro Bardellino (Naples, 1731 - Naples, 1806)
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 79 x 52 cm
with frame cm. 122 x 79
Configurable as a valuable work of the Neapolitan school of the mid 18th century, the proposed painting depicts the Madonna and Child rising in glory as she dominates the scene surrounded by a swirling array of concentrically arranged angelic figures.
Emerging from the scene are the majestic figures of two winged angels kneeling at the feet of the Virgin, to pay homage to her dual nature, human and divine, enveloped in a supernatural atmosphere as she crushes the crescent moon.
The painting is undoubtedly the work of a painter gravitating around the workshop of Francesco de Mura (Naples 1696-1782), one of the most refined and brilliant interpreters of the trends in 18th century Rococo painting, who achieved great success in Naples at the head of a prolific workshop.
Deepening the analysis of the style and compositional details, it presents remarkable stylistic correspondences with the works of Pietro Bardellino (Naples, 1732 - 1806), one of De Mura's most talented pupils and close collaborator, from whom he absorbed an elegant language and creative and chromatic originality.
The painting perfectly matches Bardellino's pictorial language, tracing his chromatic sensitivity, which is expressed in warm, soft and transparent colours, with pastel tones and iridescent reflections due to the varying incidence of light that blurs the contours and envelops the figures.
Active in the main royal residences of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon and attentive to the European art trends in vogue at the court of Maria Carolina of Saxony, wife of Ferdinand IV, Bardellino brightens up and makes his master's compositions even more painterly, expressing an elegant Rococo taste in a southern key, which we see perfectly reflected in our canvas.
Conservation status: the work is offered in good condition, complete with a magnificent gilded wooden frame, and has an old, professionally executed rintelo.
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