Pair Of Oil Paintings On Canvas Depicting Landscapes With Wayfarers On Horseback.

Pair of oil paintings on canvas depicting landscapes with wayfarers on horseback.
The paintings can be traced back to the painter Matteo Ghidoni known as Pitocchi (Padua 1626/1689) active in Padua from the mid-17th century. Matteo Ghidoni is known for his popular compositions depicting 'pitocchi', hence the nickname. His production of a sacred nature was also conspicuous and we recall the numerous works created for the Basilica of Sant'Antonio and the Church of Santa Maria dei Servi, in which the remarkable chiaroscuro tension emerges close to that of the Venetian 'tenebrosi'. However, the painter's fame is linked to 'low' genre subjects where the knowledge of the models of Callot and the Roman Bamboccianti emerges translated into almost naive pictorial forms, without predetermined compositional structures.
cm.57x76.5
Reference bibliography:
R. Pallucchini, 'La pittura veneziana del Seicento', Milan 1981