Bartolomeo Guidobono

A bacchanal with putti and satyrs in a landscape

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January 28, 03:50 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Nelson Shanks

Bartolomeo Guidobono

Savona 1654-1709 Torino

A bacchanal with putti and satyrs in a landscape

oil on canvas

canvas: 9½ by 36⅞ in.; 24.1 by 93.7 cm.

framed: 15¼ by 41¾ in.; 38.7 by 106 cm.

Anonymous sale ("From a Private Collection"), New York, Christie's, 2 June 1988, lot 23 (as Attributed to Bartolomeo Guidobono).

M. Newcome-Schleier, Bartolomeo e Domenico Guidobono, Turin 2002, p. 122, cat. no. P.59, reproduced p. 123, fig. P59 and plate VI.

Like his younger brother Domenico (1668–1746), Bartolomeo Guidobono was active in northern Italy at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Originally from Savona, he trained with his godfather, the Genoese Domenico Piola (1627-1703), who passed on to him his taste for an art that was decorative but at the same time characterized by a certain tenebrism – a style that was distinctive in the work of both the Guidobono brothers.

In this long and narrow canvas, putti and satyrs celebrate the harvest within a verdant landscape at the edge of a forest. Emerging from the forest are two satyrs carrying a basket filled with grapes towards the gathered figures at center, pouring and drinking wine from a wooden keg. This canvas may have originally been part of a series of works that illustrated either the four seasons or the five senses, although other related examples have yet to be identified.