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Lot 818
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Circle or Follower of Corrado Giaquinto (Neapolitan/Roman, 1703-1766), "Moses Striking Water From the Rock, to Succor the Israelites in the Desert", oil on canvas, unsigned, 24 1/4 in. x 18 1/8 in.
- Notes: Note: Giaquinto, a south Italian painter who had been strongly influenced by the works of Francesco Solimena and Luca Giordano in Naples, moved to Rome in 1727, and achieved an early success with his major fresco cycle of 1733 for the church of San Nicola dei Lorinesi. In 1744 he was commissioned by Pope Benedict XIV to spearhead the decoration of the newly rebuilt pilgrimage basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, where he executed a monumental fresco of this subject on the right side of the apse. The luminous painted modello for Giaquinto's "Moses Striking the Rock" (a canvas of somewhat more than twice the dimensions of this version) was acquired by the National Gallery, London, in 1987 The brilliantly translucent palette of Giaquinto's frescoes at Santa Croce established his international reputation as the preeminent painter of the Roman Rococo; the much darker tonality of this version might possibly reflect the continued replication of an early preliminary sketch, or an individualized interpretation by a more tenebrist painter. Giaquinto's vignette of the ailing mother and child at lower right should evidently be listed among the sources (via a print or drawing) for the most important masterwork of the early Romantic Movement, Eugène Delacroix's colossal "Massacres at Chios" of 1824 (Louvre, Paris), where the figures appear in the same position. References: Sergio Ortolani, S. Croce in Gerusalemme (Rome, c. 1960), pp. 52-57; Irene Cioffi, "Giaquinto," in The Dictionary of Art (Grove, London, 1996), vol. 12, pp. 586-590
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