Antonio Fontanesi (1818–1882), Attrib. - Paesaggio con fiume

Interesting work attributed to the painter Antonio Fontanesi (Reggio Emilia, February 23, 1818 – Turin, April 17, 1882) painted in oil on a wooden panel in good condition. The artwork measures 27.4 x 39.3 cm.
A retro, an inscription from Archivio
Initials label on the front bottom right.
Antonio Fontanesi is among the most sensitive of Italian romantic painters and one of the great European landscape artists, certainly also one of the most appreciated engravers of the 19th century. Emiliano, he moved to Geneva in 1850, where he came into contact with art dealer Victor Brachard and painter Alexandre Calame: in 1855, he visited the Universal Exposition in Paris and the Palais des Beaux-Arts, where he saw the works of Corot, Daubigny, Rousseau, and Troyon. Three years later, he began frequenting the circle of painters who gathered around François-Auguste Ravier in Dauphiné. In 1867, he was in Florence, where he painted "Sunset on the Arno," now in the Modern Art Gallery of Palazzo Pitti: while the Arno has been a very common subject since the mid-18th century, both among local and foreign artists, Fontanesi chose not to conform to the previous tradition but adopted a more 'impressionistic' approach rather than a 'view.' Here, and more generally, we can find the poetry of truth, determined by a Romantic sensibility, illuminated by an unparalleled light and at the same time characterized by the best fidelity to the truth of en plein air painting. His goal was to capture the fleeting variation of light at sunset on the landscape, thus conveying his free impression and lyrical vocation of the truth, achieved through a quick and careful application, alternating textured impasto with thin brushstrokes. The execution technique, with sharp contrasts between light and shadow and a lively palette, suggests placing the creation of our painting also in the Florentine stay.
Origin of the collection from a private Italian collection.
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