Author: Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli (Turin. 1730 – 1800) Title: Animated landscape with Monviso in the distance Period: 18th century Technique: Oil on canvas Measurements: 100 x 110 cm. (110 x 120 cm. with 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 states that he was "70 years old". A. Baudi di Vesme (Schede Vesme) clarified the confusion that arose around his name, whereby 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 somewhat cloying manner, but supported by confident 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 many assistants and thus making it difficult to distinguish between the autographed and workshop production. C.'s work is documented from 1749 to 1794. He married Rosalia Ladatte in 1766, daughter of the sculptor Francesco, a painter, who also became his collaborator and died in 1792 (I. Nepote, in Schede Vesme, p. 317). – Treccani Encyclopedia, Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli