Friday, April 5, 2019

Francesco Trevisani (1656-1746) - Venice and Rome - II

Francesco Trevisani
Apelles painting Campaspe
1720
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Francesco Trevisani
Study for Apelles painting Campaspe
ca. 1720
drawing
National Gallery of Canada

Francesco Trevisani
Apollo and Daphne
ca. 1675-1700
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Francesco Trevisani
Banquet of Cleopatra and Antony
ca. 1702
oil on canvas
Galleria Spada, Rome

Francesco Trevisani
Diana and Endymion
ca. 1713
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Kassel

attributed to Francesco Trevisani
Judgment of Paris
before 1746
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

"CAVALIERE FRANCESCO TREVISANI, painter, born at Capo d'Istria in 1656, was the son of Antonio Trevisani, an architect of some reputation, by whom he was instructed in the first rudiments of design.  He afterwards became the disciple of Antonio Zanchi, at Venice.  He visited Rome, where he studied under Maratti, and was favoured with the patronage of Cardinal Chigi.  Chigi employed him in several considerable works, and recommended him to the protection of Pope Clement XI, who not only commissioned him to paint one of the Prophets in S. Giovanni Laterano, but engaged him to decorate the cupola of the cathedral at Urbino.  . . .  The public buildings of Rome abound with his works.  He showed talent in imitating the style of the old masters, and was employed by the Duke of Modena in copying the works of Correggio, Parmigianino, and other favourite painters."

– Michael Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical (London: George Bell and Sons, 1889)

Francesco Trevisani
Raising of Lazarus
ca. 1675-1700
oil on canvas
private collection

Francesco Trevisani
Baptism of Christ
1723
oil on canvas
Temple Newsam House, Leeds Museums and Galleries

Francesco Trevisani
Portrait of a Man playing an Archlute
before 1746
oil on canvas
private collection

attributed to Francesco Trevisani
Portrait of Sir Edward Gascoigne
ca. 1725
oil on canvas
Lotherton Hall, Leeds Museums and Galleries

Francesco Trevisani
Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni
ca. 1689-1700
oil on canvas
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham

Francesco Trevisani
Sheet of studies - Recumbent Figure on a Sarcophagus, and Figures for The Birth of St John the Baptist
before 1746
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Francesco Trevisani
Sheet of studies - Figures for The Birth of St John the Baptist
before 1746
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Francesco Trevisani
Youth holding Staff
before 1746
drawing
British Museum