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- Title
Venceslao Wehrlin, “pittor di ritratti e di scene famigliari” fra Torino, Vienna, Roma e Firenze nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo.
- Authors
Cifani, Arabella
- Abstract
The painter Wenceslas Wehrlin has been the subject of innovative investigations tracing his life and work between Turin and Florence. His birth certificate (Turin, 1744) was found with a large group of documents on his family. A large group of paintings scattered among European collections or sold on the international art market has also been analysed for the first time. Wherlin worked in Turin as a portraitist for the Savoy family and, at least from 1770, in Florence. His presence in Rome in 1774-1775 is documented, and he was probably in Naples shortly before his death in 1780. He often returned to Turin, where his presence is documented in 1776 and 1778. He was an educated, well-informed, meticulously detail-oriented painter. His portraits are of unusual artistic, historical and documentary importance. Wehrlin developed a style that referred to European pictorial models, especially the painting style of Martin van Meytens, Maria Theresa of Habsburg’s favourite painter, who had also been to Turin. The features of the carefully outlined faces and the unmistakable clues of the social position and profession of his subjects still convey a lively feeling and are a vivid iconographic record of the last stretch of the Ancien Régime.
- Subjects
TURIN (Italy); PORTRAIT painters; 18TH century portrait painting; PAINTING techniques; ART
- Publication
Studi Piemontesi, 2022, Vol 51, Issue 2, p523
- ISSN
0392-7261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26344/0392-7261/22-2.CIF