- Title:
- Landscape with a Group of Figures
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- A group of smartly dressed men and women, accompanied by two dogs, talk among themselves. On the other side of the gently flowing river, peasants experience a very different life: they wash clothes and attend to cattle beside a rustic farmhouse. As a backdrop, this painting uses a rural village framed by trees and distant mountains, painted in thick brushstrokes of rich colour, as does its companion piece, Landscape with a Group of Figures Fishing (National Gallery, London).Guiseppe Zais moved to Venice in around 1725/30, where he spent nearly 50 years as a landscape painter. This is a late work of around 1770/80s. In 1774, after several attempts, Zais was accepted as a member of the Fraglia dei Pittori Veneziani, a prestigious society of artists working in Venice. His painting technique was inspired by Francesco Zuccarelli, whose Landscape with Figures and Cattle is also in the National Gallery's collection.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1889-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1889
- Date - latest:
- 1889
- Associated concept:
- work
- Associated concept:
- leisure
- Associated concept:
- cattle
- Associated concept:
- dogs
- Credit line:
- Bought, 1889
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 196/577/386/mid_N-1296-00-000017.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 49.50
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 65.50
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Venetian)
- Object production date:
- probably 1770-80
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1770
- Date - latest:
- 1780
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1750-74
- Date - period:
- 1775-99
- Object production person:
- Giuseppe Zais
- Person's birth date:
- 1709
- Person's death date:
- 1784
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Object production place:
- Venice
- Other number:
- NG1296
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0FDS-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG1296
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-03WC-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng31296
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- townscapes
- Style:
- river scenes
- Style:
- landscapes
- Style:
- rococo
- Style:
- neoclassical
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 244
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 109
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 733
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ace55f90-5a82-3e58-a3db-005261294b37
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ace55f90-5a82-3e58-a3db-005261294b37, National Gallery, CC BY
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