Antique Painting The Announcing Angel Lucrina Fetti 17th Century Oil On Canvas

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The announcing angel

Lucrina Fetti, born Giustina Fetti (Rome, circa 1590 – Mantua, 1673) attributable

Oil on canvas
75 x 62 cm. - Antique gilded wooden frame 87 x 74 cm.

The proposed work, characterized by a refined sacredness, sees the Archangel Gabriel depicted as he is about to make the supreme announcement to the Virgin, offering her the canons the white lilies, symbol of purity and chastity: it is a splendid subject, created with great stylistic quality, probably commissioned for private use and therefore particularly pleasant and easy to place.

The Angel takes the form of a young man of rare beauty, with delicate features, wrapped in a precious robe with soft drapes, all marked by an intense classicism, where a balanced composition directs the observer's attention to his face.

The painting can be attributed to the Baroque painter Lucrina Fetti, born Giustina Fetti (Rome, circa 1590 – Mantua, circa 1673), younger sister and pupil of the more famous painter Domenico Fetti, from whom she learned the secrets of the trade in her father's workshop in Rome, and who then became a painter at the Gonzaga court in Mantua.

The painter's pictorial style is influenced by that theatrical painting, rich in chiaroscuro contrasts and bright colors typical of the baroque taste, all characteristics inherited from her brother. And even the definition of our angel presents the recurring physiognomic traits of his religious figures, with full cheeks, small but plump lips and an intense gaze.

His model was strongly conditioned both by his Roman family formation and by his long devotional activity at court in seventeenth-century Mantua, carried out within the convent of Sant'Orsola, where he was able to carve out a role of great cultural and social prestige.

The very fine features of the angel's face, here portrayed in three-quarters, are exemplary of the grace of the painter's models and which we can find in works such as the Archangel Gabriel (ref.1) or the Annunciation (ref.2), both part of the collection of the Palazzo Ducale Museum in Mantua.

The conservation conditions of the work appear good.


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The painting is sold complete with a pleasant frame and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and descriptive iconographic card.

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The proposed work, characterized by a refined sacredness, sees the Archangel Gabriel depicted as he is about to make the supreme announcement to the Virgin, offering her the canons the white lilies, symbol of purity and chastity: it is a splendid subject, created with great stylistic quality, probably commissioned for private use and therefore particularly pleasant and easy to place. The painting can be attributed to the Baroque painter Lucrina Fetti, born Giustina Fetti (Rome, circa 1590 – Mantua, circa 1673), younger sister and pupil of the more famous painter Domenico Fetti, from whom she learned the secrets of the trade in her father's workshop in Rome, and who then became a painter at the Gonzaga court in Mantua. The painter's pictorial style is influenced by that theatrical painting,