Vincenzo Camuccini Rome 1771 - 1844

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Description

Vincenzo Camuccini
pan and apollo
signed or inscribed on the reverse of the canvas: Camuccini
oil on canvas, unlined, in a carved and gilt wood frame
52.7 by 74.5 cm.; 20 3/4 by 29 3/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels (according to a label on the reverse).

Literature

U. Hiesinger, "The Paintings of Vincenzo Camuccini, 1771-1844", in The Art Bulletin, June 1978, p.314.

Catalogue Note

Brother of the art dealer Pietro Camuccini and pupil of Domenico Corvi, Vicenzo Camuccini became the leading proponent of the classical tradition in Rome at the turn of the 19th century following the deaths of Pompeo Batoni and Anton Raphael Mengs and the departure of Pietro Benvenuti, Guiseppe Bossi and Luigi Sabatelli for Florence and Milan. In 1802 he was received by the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and at the age of only 35 was elected its Principal, a position he retained from 1806 until 1810. The Pope Pius VII appointed him the Superintendent of the Apostolic Palaces in 1814 after his return from Paris and Munich.

The present picture was painted when Camuccini was at the height of his fame, and is listed in his accounts for works executed between 1796-1833 (published by Heisinger - see Literature), in which he refers to receipt of payment from "un Olandese per due mezze figure Appollo e Dio Pane".