Gaspare Traversi
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Gaspare Traversi (c. 1722–1770) was a Rococo painter best known for his genre works, and active both in his native city of Naples, but also painted throughout Italy, including a stay in Parma. He was active mainly between 1732-1769. He trained under Francesco Solimena. He was a contemporary of other Solimena pupils, Giuseppe Bonito (1707-1789), also a genre painter, and Francesco de Mura (1696-1784). Traversi's paintings typically depict animated groups of protagonists that seem squeezed into a pictorial space that can barely contain them. The scene is typically a dramatic dilemma or controversy. He is a Napolitan Crespi or Longhi, working in a Caravaggist style.
[edit] Partial Anthology of works
| Painting | Date | Site | Link | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judith with Head of Holofernes | Private Collection, Milan | |||
| The Seduction | Collezione Luigi Koelliker, Milan | |||
| Old beggar con scugnizzo | Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan | |||
| Portrait of cardinal Gian Giacomo Millo | c. 1753 | Private collection, Milan | [1] | |
| The Scribe | Galleria Estense, Modena | |||
| Monaco di Baviera | Private collection, Modena | |||
| Maternal Orgoglio | Private collection, Modena | |||
| Saints Lucia, Agatha & Apollonia | Cathedral, Parma | [2] | ||
| Child Jesus before St. Anthony of Padua | Cathedral, Parma | |||
| Saints Pasquale Baylon & Bernardino | Cathedral, Parma | |||
| St. Peter of Alcantara in ecstasy | Cathedral, Parma | |||
| Crucifixion & Franciscan Saints | Cathedral, Parma | |||
| Pentecost | Church of San Pietro d’Alcantara, Parma | |||
| The concert | Private collection, Parma | |||
| Saint Francis receives stigmata | Santa Maria di Campagna, Piacenza | |||
| Mandola player | Pinacoteca D'Errico, Matera | [3] | ||
| Child with wine glass and flask | Pinacoteca D'Errico, Matera | [4] | ||
| Music Lesson | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City | [5] | ||
| Design Lesson | Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City | |||
| A fantasy | Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Florence | |||
| Saint Jerome | Private collection Mina Gregori, Florence | |||
| Life of the Virgin | Santa Maria dell'Aiuto, Naples | |||
| Portrait of Cleric | Museo di Capodimonte, Naples | |||
| Musical entertainment | Museo di Capodimonte, Naples | |||
| Brawl during Card Game | Certosa di San Martino, Naples | [6] | ||
| The Secret Letter | Museo Pignatelli, Naples | [7] | ||
| Musical entertainment | Museo Pignatelli, Naples | |||
| Maternity | Private collection, Naples | |||
| Concert with Mandolin Player | Private collection, Naples | [8] | ||
| The fiancee | Private collection, Naples | |||
| The card-game | Private collection, Naples | |||
| The Marriage Contract | Palazzo Barberini, Rome | |||
| Portrait of Fra Joannethino de Molina | Palazzo Barberini, Rome | |||
| Portrait of Fra’ Raffaello da Lugagnano | Private collection, Rome | |||
| Resurrection of Lazarus | San Paolo fuori le mura, Rome | |||
| Murder during Meal at the House of Absalom | 1752 | San Paolo fuori le mura, Rome | [9] | |
| La poppata | Private collection, Rome | |||
| Entertainment del pupo | Private collection, Rome | |||
| The couple's dance | Private collection, Rome | |||
| Three Ages of Man | Private collection, Turin | |||
| Stations of the Cross (14 canvases) | Chiesa di San Rocco, Borgotaro | |||
| Mourning over Dead Christ | Museo della Collegiata, Castell’Arquato near Parma (originally church of Convent of Santa Maria di Monte Oliveto) | |||
| Christ mocked | ibid | |||
| Ecce Homo | ibid | [10]. | ||
| Posing for Portrait | 1754 | Louvre, Paris | [11] | |
| The Laugh | 1754 | |||
| The Wound | 1752 | Accademia, Venice | [12] | |
| The Surgery | Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart | [13] | ||
| The Card Party | Musée des Beaux Arts, Rouen | [14] | ||
| The Concert | Musée des Beaux Arts, Rouen | |||
| Self-portrait | Seattle | [15] | ||
| Teasing a Sleeping Girl | Metropolitan Museum, New York City | [16] | ||
| Saint Margaret of Cortona | c. 1758 | Metropolitan Museum, New York City | [17] | |
| Portrait of a Man (attributed) | Metropolitan Museum, New York City | [18] |
[edit] References
- Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief) (1986). in National Gallery of Art, Washington DC: The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries, 373-378.
- Wittkower, Rudolf (1980). Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. Pelican History of Art (Penguin Books Ltd), pp 494-495.
- Naples Exhibition in 2005 was titled Gaspare Traversi. Napolitans of the 1700s between Misery and Nobility [19]
- Stuttgart Exhibition: Gaspare Traversi Amusement in the Shade [20]
- Parma Exhibition:Luminary of the 1700s: Gaspare Traversi and his painting in Emilia,[21]
