Giuseppe Santi

Very thinly relined. Overall there is excellent retention of the paint surface with impasto nicely preserved. Under UV light: just a few very small and minor retouches are scattered here and there. There appears to be one small fill in the drapery of the female figure second from right. No further work is needed and the painting can be hung as is. Offered in a carved and gilt wood frame.
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Santi trained under Gaetano Gandolfi in Bologna and was one of the leading artistic figures in that city at the end of the eighteenth century. His career follows the shift in style from the late Baroque to the early Neoclassical.