Author: Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli (Turin, 1730 – 1800) Title: Animated Landscape with Family in the Foreground Era: 18th century Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 104 x 110 cm (115 x 120 cm including frame) Condition: Excellent Provenance: Turin Son of the painter Scipione and Marianna Caretti, Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli was born in Turin around 1730. The date of birth is established on the basis of the death certificate which describes him as "70 years old". A. Baudi di Vesme (Schede Vesme) clarified the confusion surrounding his name, as a result of which his person had previously been split into that of Vittorio Amedeo and Gaetano. According to family tradition, C. trained with his father from whom he absorbed Venetian culture, but with a different orientation. A more precious taste and Arcadian nostalgia distinguish C. from his father, of whom he was a collaborator; the rather cloying manners, but supported by sure professional skill, met with extraordinary success at the Savoy court and the Piedmontese aristocracy. It is precisely with Vittorio Amedeo that the Cignaroli workshop expanded greatly, welcoming quantities of assistants and thus making a distinction between the autograph and workshop production still difficult. C.'s work is documented from 1749 to 1794. In 1766 he married Rosalia Ladatte, daughter of the sculptor Francesco, painter, who also became his collaborator and died in 1792 (I. Nepote, in Schede Vesme, p. 317). – Treccani Encyclopedia, Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli SOLD