Landscape with Fishermen

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Landscape with Fishermen

Artist Francesco Zuccarelli (Italian, 1702-1788)

Place of OriginItaly

Dateabout 1740-1745

DimensionsH: 33 1/2 in. (84 cm); W: 44 1/2 in. (130 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1977.1

Not on View

Label TextReferred to in his day as the “King of landscape painters,” Francesco Zuccarelli specialized in poetic, imaginative scenes that often included a sense of playfulness (see, for example, the awkward backwards descent of the young lady to retrieve her hat from the water). The forceful, dark forms of the pine trees on the right are offset by the lyrical light of the setting sun that spotlights the figures and turns the clouds a glowing pink. Look for the gourd bottle in this painting—“zucco” is Italian for gourd, so Zuccarelli often included one in his paintings as a visual pun for his name.Published References"Eighteenth-Century Paintings from Toledo," Apollo, vol. 106, no. 185, July 1977, p. 68, repr.

"Acquisitions," Art Journal, vol. 36, no. 4, Summer 1977, p. 352.

"Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions," Burlington, vol. 119, no. 890, May 1977; p. 359.

"For the Record," Art Gallery, vol. 20, no. 3, Feb./Mar. 1977, p. 75.

"La chronique des arts," Gazette Des Beaux-Arts, vol. 91, no. 1310, March 1978, p. 96.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Wildenstein, Romance and Reality: Aspects of Landscape Painting, 1978, no. 66, p. 26, repr. fig. 41.