When you climb the stairs leading to the Eric Coatalem Gallery, a series of anatomical drawings are revealed to you. Their quality is all the more striking given the young age of their author, Vincenzo Camuccini (1771-1844), who produced them when he was barely 17. A member of the Accademia de' Pensieri, founded in the 1790s in Rome by Felice Giani, Camuccini quickly became one of the leaders in Italy of the European neoclassicism descended from David. Several of his paintings, which are also included in the exhibition, are part of a rhetorical art, taking up Roman history: Appius Claudius, a sketch for the monumental Death of Virginia in the Museum of Capodimonte in Naples, and the Departure of Atilius Regulus, among others.

If the exhibition for which the Roman gallery Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art and that of Maurizio Nobile, based in Paris, have joined forces is called The Camuccinis, it is because father and son are presented there. Giovanni Battista Camuccini (1819-1904) did not share his father's neoclassical aspirations, but developed a pictorial register in opposition by painting landscapes of the Italian countryside. The death of his father and uncle in the 1840s led Giovanni Battista to stop painting in favor of managing the family business. Although his creative period is concentrated between 1830 and 1850 approximately, the Eric Coatalem gallery offers him an entire room for his landscapes full of romantic poetry.

After a first stage in Rome, then the reception of this exhibition on the occasion of the international exhibition Paris Fine Art at the Parisian gallery Eric Coatalem at the beginning of November, it is visible at Maurizio Nobile Fine Art in Paris from November 16 to December 3, 2021.

Raphaël Levy.

Maurizio Nobile Fine Art
Hotel Jean Bart | Claude Passart
2, rue Chapon - 75003 Paris
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