84 - Giuseppe Zais (Canale d'Agordo 1709 – Treviso 1784)

Giuseppe Zais (Canale d'Agordo 1709 – Treviso 1784) Arcadian Landscape with a Castle Tempera/gouache on paper 26.5 x 36 cm Giuseppe Zais was a prolific landscape painter active in Venice and the surrounding area (Villa Pisani in Strà, Padua, Treviso). Among his most important admirers and patrons were Consul Smith and the Pisani family. He arrived in Venice a few years after the deaths of Bartolomeo Pedon and Matteo Stom, whose works he studied, although his two main sources of inspiration were Marco Ricci and Francesco Zuccarelli. From 1748 to 1768, he was registered in the roll of the Venetian Painters’ Guild, and in 1774 he was elected to the Venetian Academy. His most important works are housed not only in the civic museums of Padua and Vicenza but also in the Gallerie dell’Accademia and the Museo del Settecento in Venice, at Villa Nazionale in Strà, at the National Gallery in London, and at the Albertina in Vienna. Giuseppe Zais (Canale d’Agordo 1709 – Treviso 1784) An Arcadian Landscape with a Castle Tempera/gouache on paper 26.5 x 36 cm