Collection
Antique Paintings
COD. 17585
Joseph sold to Potiphar
Oil on canvas
118x196 cm, with frame 140x218.5 cm
2023.128.1
2023.128.1
The painting depicting "Joseph Sold to Potiphar" is, in my opinion, a definitive work by Giuseppe Diziani (Belluno 1689 – Venice 1767). It is one of his most stylistically robust paintings, where the form is modeled with an almost sculptural touch. This singular quality, however, does not detract from the work's coloristic qualities, which, as always with Diziani, are presented with a richness and splendor of beautiful hues. Precisely because of these formal characteristics, I believe the painting was executed between 1725 and 1730, very close to the ceiling of the Parish of Borbiago (VE) and completed before 1732 (cf. Vincenzo da Canal, Vita del Lazzarini, 1809) and, again, to the Galante Scene, from the same period, in the collection. Lapicirella of Florence, illustrated in my "Venetian Painting of the Eighteenth Century," 1964, fig. 169. The painting here is also published by F. Valcanover in "Studi Trentini di Scienze Storiche" (Volume LX, no. 2, 1981, p. 290).
Egidio Martini
2023.128.1
The painting depicting "Joseph Sold to Potiphar" is, in my opinion, a definitive work by Giuseppe Diziani (Belluno 1689 – Venice 1767). It is one of his most stylistically robust paintings, where the form is modeled with an almost sculptural touch. This singular quality, however, does not detract from the work's coloristic qualities, which, as always with Diziani, are presented with a richness and splendor of beautiful hues. Precisely because of these formal characteristics, I believe the painting was executed between 1725 and 1730, very close to the ceiling of the Parish of Borbiago (VE) and completed before 1732 (cf. Vincenzo da Canal, Vita del Lazzarini, 1809) and, again, to the Galante Scene, from the same period, in the collection. Lapicirella of Florence, illustrated in my "Venetian Painting of the Eighteenth Century," 1964, fig. 169. The painting here is also published by F. Valcanover in "Studi Trentini di Scienze Storiche" (Volume LX, no. 2, 1981, p. 290).
Egidio Martini
€ 40.000,00
Price
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