Ancient Oil Painting On Canvas Depicting The Pilgrimage To Cythera. France 19th Century.

Ancient painting depicting a moment of leisure of the French aristocracy (Pilgrimage to Kythera) anonymous French school master of the early 19th century, oil on canvas.

The composition of the scene is engaged by various characters, men, women and girls, caught in a joyful picture of daily life animated by the carefree joie de vivre typical of the frivolous and worldly aristocracy.

Our painting is inspired by the so-called "gallant scenes", a pictorial theme that became so prominent in European pictorial culture as early as the first decades of the 18th century to the point of having almost the dignity of a pictorial genre.

It reflects a modus vivendi of the high society of the time, accustomed to the pleasures of life, to the comfort of the well-being of the court, between amusements, whims and various pleasures.

The clothes are those of the eighteenth-century tradition even if the painting was made in the early 1800s in an almost nostalgic key.

The canvas is embellished with a beautiful French frame in gilded wood with gold leaf, engraved border.

Provenance: France (1820/40)

Measurements: 125x100cm.

Document: Certificate of Authenticity.

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