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Paintings > 1800 > 'Venus', oil on canvas by Francesco Gonin (Turin, Italy 1808 - Giaveno, Turin 1889).
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| 'Venus', oil on canvas by Francesco Gonin (Turin, Italy 1808 - Giaveno, Turin 1889). | Description: Francesco Gonin studied at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, Italy, under the painters Lorenzo Pécheux (Lion, France 1729 - Turin 1821), Giovanni Battista Biscarra (Nice, France 1790 – Turin 1851) and Luigi Vacca (Turin 1778–1854), whose daughter he married.
He was one of the first Italian artists to specialize in lithography and wood-engraving, and he became famous as the major illustrator of 'I promessi sposi' and the 'Storia della colonna infame' by Alessandro Manzoni (published together, Milan, 1840).
He was a versatile artist and, after collaborating with Vacca in the 1830s, received royal commissions for frescoes: he decorated the ballroom of the Royal Palace in Turin and the Sala delle Margherie in the Castle of Racconigi (both 1840–41); he also decorated the Carignano Palace in Turin (1845). In 1854 Gonin succeeded Vacca as stage designer at the Royal Theather in Turin.
He was also a painter of historical, genre and religious subjects as well as landscapes and portraits.
Some of his works are held in the Museum of Palazzo Bianco in Genoa and in the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome.
He painted the Portrait of Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Italy (1820-1878) and the Portrait of Maria Adelaide of Austria, Queen of Italy (1822-1855).
Bibliography: AA.VV., 'Francesco Gonin', catalog exhibition, Turin 1991; Francesca Grana, 'Francesco Gonin Pittore piemontese...', UCIIM, Turin 2011. | | Age: c 1850 | | Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 10 inc. | | Price: € 2.400,00 | | Item n°: RC 108 |
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