PIETRO NEGRI (attr. A)
(Venice 1628 - 1679)
Hercules and Onphale
Oil on canvas, 93X127 cm
With a dark character peculiar to mid-seventeenth-century Venetian painting, the painting is attributed to Pietro Negri, a pupil with Antonio Zanchi, Francesco Rosa and Federico Cervelli of Francesco Ruschi. The earliest known works by the artist date from the early Sixties, documenting a close analogy with the works of the master and a naturalist orientation dictated by comparison with Antonio Zanchi and Giovanni Battista Langetti.
Reference bibliography:
G. Fossaluzza, Annotazioni e aggiunte al catalogo di Pietro Negri, pittore del chiaro giorno alquanto inimico, in Verona illustrata, XXIII (2010), pp. 71 - 90
G. Fossaluzza, Annotazioni e aggiunte al catalogo di Pietro Negri... in Verona illustrata XXIV (2011), pp. 109 ; 133
