GIACINTO GIGANTE (ITALIAN 1806-1876)
View of Vesuvius from Posillipo
signed G Gigante (lower left)
oil on canvas
42 x 63 cm

Gigante has captured Vesuvius from his home town of Naples from the Posillipo. The beautifully detailed figures are shown relaxing and trading after the days catch, as Vesuvius lies gently smoking beyond. The style and overall type of the painting point to its likely execution during the 1840s. The work can be compared closely on stylistic and compositional grounds to treatments of the subject showing a comparable treatment of light and a similar characterisation of the figures during this period.