Antonio Zona (1814–1892) - Ritratto di popolana

Magnificent work by painter Antonio Zona (Gambellara di Mira 1814 – Rome 1892) painted in watercolor on cardboard in good condition. The painting measures 30x20 cm. The piece is signed bottom-right. The frame is original to the period and needs conservative restoration and it has its protective glass.
Having lived for a long time in Milan, his pictorial taste remained tied to the Venetian painting tradition; Grigoletti and Politi had indeed educated him to admire Titian. He was a painter, according to the Romantic fashion of the time, of historical paintings; but he also produced genre scenes, landscapes – views of Venice, Trieste and Rome – and portraits: in the latter (as was often the case for minor 19th-century painters) the Italian, whose compositions tended toward illustrative or stylistic concerns, Zona managed to give the best of himself. Among them we mention the Portrait of Comm. Giustiniano Vanzo Mercante (Bassano, Vanzo Mercante Childhood Asylum), with rich coloring and a vividly characterized portrayal. Of his other works: The Meeting of Titian with Paolo Veronese, exhibited in Venice in 1861, today at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts; Lombardy embraces Venice; The Offering of the Venetians for the War of Chioggia (1869, in the Giovannelli Palace); Nicolò de' Lapi; Giambellino in disguise has himself painted by Antonello da Messina; The Madonna of Charity frees Iesi from the plague; The Departure of Tobiah from the house of Rachel; Saint Gotthard cures a blind person; Portrait of King Umberto (1880, at Montecitorio); Lady sleeping, Woman in meditation. And furthermore, in public galleries: A Funeral Song and Contemplation, in the Civic Museum of Turin; Violinist, in the Rome Modern Art Gallery; The Self-Portrait, at the Uffizi; Female Bust, A Traviata, The Bather, Portrait of a Lady and Portrait of the noblewoman Teresa Mozzoni, in the Milan Modern Art Gallery.
Provenance: private Italian collection
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