A pair of oval landscapes “By the Lake”

Antonio Francesco
Peruzzini

The early 18th century

Diameter of each painting - 25 cm

Oil on a wooden panel

18th century Italian school

Private collection

The paintings were created in the environment or workshop of Antonio Francesco Peruzzini. The artist was born in Ancona, the family of the artist Domenico. His works often included capricci similar to those of Marco Ricci.

Peruzzini travelled prior to 1687 to Venice, Bologna, Modena, Parma, Casale Monferrato and Turin. He remained in Bologna from 1682 to 1686, where he worked in collaboration with Sebastiano Ricci and Giovanni Antonio Burrini. In this period he contributed to “Temptations of St Antony” and “Landscape with woodcutter” (the 1690’s). In 1703 he moved to Tuscany, patronized by Ferdinand de Medici, and worked with Alessandro Magnasco.

The landscape of this period is influenced by classicist paintings, invariably features the same idyllic image of serene nature with clean skies, calm sea, and tall trees with strong trunks and lush crowns.