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Conversation in the garden - Giuseppe De Nittis

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Giuseppe De Nittis: Conversation in the garden  wikidata:Q110806842 reasonator:Q110806842
Artist
Giuseppe De Nittis  (1846–1884)  wikidata:Q607495 q:it:Giuseppe De Nittis
 
Giuseppe De Nittis
Description Italian painter and engraver
Date of birth/death 25 February 1846 Edit this at Wikidata 22 August 1884
Location of birth/death Barletta Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Work location
Portici, Florence, Paris
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q607495
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Italian:
Conversazione in giardino

Conversation in the garden
title QS:P1476,it:"Conversazione in giardino"
label QS:Lit,"Conversazione in giardino"
label QS:Len,"Conversation in the garden"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
Conversation in the garden (1869-71), by Giuseppe De Nittis
Date between 1869 and 1871
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1869-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1871-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 51 cm (20 in); width: 31.5 cm (12.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,51U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,31.5U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Notes
Caption from the auctioneers website
From 1863 to 1865, the sensitivity of the great Apulian master, already expressed in his first pictorial essays, in the landscapes already pervaded by a promising and sincere naturalistic sense, led him to that experience of en-plein air painting that he will develop together with Federico Rossano, Marco De Gregorio, Raffaele Belliazzi and others and who takes shape in that group of free painters of nature scenes that Domenico Morelli called the "Republic of Portici". In the works of this period De Nittis is oriented towards the study from life, the immediacy of the impression that leads him to perform a series of landscapes immersed in a limpid and terse light. But 1867 is undoubtedly the most important year for De Nittis since in that year he crossed the borders of the only regions he knew well until then, Puglie and Campania, to go to Rome, where he stayed for a month and where it leads to an unidentified exhibition the paintings that would later be exhibited in Florence but of which there is no news and documents. In the same year he went to Paris, where he was seduced by the meticulous painting of Meissonier and met the Parisian merchants Frederic Reutlinger and Adolphe Goupil, who immediately grasp the qualities of the young painter. De Nittis stays in Paris but due to the Franco-Prussian war he returns home to Portici, where for almost two years he paints at the foot of Vesuvius, even if already in 1872 he returned to Paris with his family and settled there permanently. We identify the years from 1868 to 1871 as the date for the execution of the unpublished painting that we present in this sale, which can be placed in the period of Italian training for the compositional firmness, the fullness of light, even if, for certain compositional elegance, knowledge is highlighted. of contemporary French painting with which De Nittis fleetingly comes into contact during his first stay in Paris. And more precisely, it is between 1869-1871, on his return to Portici, that the execution of the painting Conversation in the garden is stylistically placed.


Two elegant ladies are portrayed by De Nittis in a moment of rest after a walk in the garden; seated under the large shady palm, the two ladies are close together and have a conversation with a light whisper, light as the breeze that moves the branches of the palm, light as the rustle of the fans waving to cool off. The two ladies, soberly and elegantly dressed, rest from a short walk during which some flowers have been collected, now placed on the bench. On them a zenith light, of a sun so clear and strong as only in Italy De Nittis could paint, which enhances the wide open space in the foreground, sprinkled with flower petals and counterbalanced by the segment of intense blue sky that stands out above. the palm, imposing and regal protagonist of the painting.

The freshly picked bouquet, the earthenware pots placed along the path leading to the clearing, the intimacy of the dialogue, may suggest that the scene takes place in a private park rather than in a public place, perhaps a large Neapolitan garden frequented by the artist in his stay in the Neapolitan city.

As for the stylistic and thematic affinities with the proposed work, we recall Barlettano Landscape (fig. 1) for the fresh brushstroke with which the flower bushes are outlined, but De Nittis around 1870 is now far from the results of Appuntamento nel bosco di Portici (fig. 2) which marks the artist's beginnings, and embarks on a path in those same years which, as in Al Luxembourg (fig. 3) where he represents the glimpse of a Parisian public park, or in Grenoullière (fig. 4) where young ladies are about to take a boat trip, turns to a more precise, documentary, anecdotal painting, lightning-fast like a snapshot, with which he will later portray the elegances of the Bois de Boulogne, de l'Opéra , of Longchamp, of Auteuil.

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