Painting ID:: 20299
The Continence of Scipio (mk05) Canvas 50 1/2 x 45 1/4''(128 x 115 cm) Seized in the Revolution from the collection of the Duc de Penthievre,Chateau de Chanteloup
Painting ID:: 20646
The Continence of Scipio (mk05) Canvas 22 x 38 1/4''(56 x 97 cm)Early collection INV
PITTONI, Giambattista Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1687-1767
Italian painter and draughtsman. With Giambattista Tiepolo and Piazzetta, he was the most representative history painter of the Venetian Rococo. Besides altarpieces for Venetian and other churches as well as devotional images for private clients on both sides of the Alps, he painted subjects from mythology and Classical literature for collectors and connoisseurs in a Rococo idiom all his own; it is these secular pictures for which he is best known. Zava Boccazzi's catalogue raisonn of Pittoni's paintings (1979) includes 247 extant autograph works and 117 paintings now lost, destroyed or untraced. Binion's catalogue raisonn? of the artist's drawings (1983) lists 304 sheets. Pittoni's total output must have been far larger, as is evident from the drawings, many of which are studies for unknown works. For instance, Pittoni must occasionally have painted decorations for secular buildings and palazzi, probably in fresco, though none has yet come to light, with the notable exception of the few frescoes with scenes from the Life of Diana, painted in 1727 in the palazzetto Widman in Bagnoli di Sopra near Padua. The Continence of Scipio (mk05) Canvas 22 x 38 1/4''(56 x 97 cm)Early collection INV
