132 Jules Romain JOYANT (1803-1854) View... - Lot 132 - Magnin Wedry

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132 Jules Romain JOYANT (1803-1854) View... - Lot 132 - Magnin Wedry
132 Jules Romain JOYANT (1803-1854) View of Venice, Scuola Grande di San Marco and the Cavallo Bridge on the Rio dei Mendicanti, 1852 Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and dated 1852. 102 x 76 cm Provenance: In the artist's family. Related work: Several works represent the composition of the Scuola San Marco, in graphite as a preparatory work in oil on canvas or on paper with variations of details and formats (see Catalogue Jules-Romain Joyant, Musée Louis-Senlecq, L'Isle-Adam 1978, n°79 to 83). Our painting is one of the most important that Joyant painted in Venice, both in terms of its size and the care taken in its execution. It continues the great tradition of the Venetian painters of the previous century, Guardi and Canaletto. The latter, much admired by Joyant, represented this Scuola on several occasions, but a century separates the two artists: Canaletto greatly enlarged the point of view, abounded in details and dramatized the light, while Joyant, with a tighter composition, made the monument more intimate and draped it with the melancholy proper to the Romantic period, in that, also in conformity with a Venice whose splendor and power were now fallen. Trained in neoclassicism but also having taken courses in architecture, Joyant was authorized by Bonington, the same year he died (1828), to copy his studies and watercolors of Venice. Joyant retained the virtuoso craftsmanship, the transparent lights, but also a passion for a city he visited many times, sometimes staying for several months. In the 1830s/40s Joyant was the painter of Venice: he exhibited many views at the Paris Salon and had the honor of having one of his paintings placed by King Louis-Philippe in his study at the Tuileries, and later in his residence at the Château de Neuilly. Some of his works will be acquired by the State and he will get very favorable reviews from Théophile Gautier. Built by Pietro Lombardo at the end of the 15th century, the Scuola Grande di San Marco has its façade on the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. The Scuola is one of the six great religious confraternities of Venice which houses pictorial treasures of Bellini, Tintoretto, Bordone,
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