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Description: | This small painting is a typical classical landscape by Francesco Zuccarelli, the leading landscape painter in eighteenth-century Italy. Its asymmetrical composition suggests that it was paired with another picture. Ever since the painting came to the museum the figures have been supposed to be portraits of the King of France, Louis XV, and Madame de Montespan (she was in fact the mistress of Louis XIV). The seated lady is taking a finch out of a cage, and the supposed monarch, in the guise of a shepherd, stands by her side. The picture could also be seen as a genre scene with a bird-seller, located in an imaginary landscape. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Zuccarelli, Franco (Italian painter, 1702-1788) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8815... | Go to resource |
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