Peter Mequignon (1768-1826), 1794

Peter Mequignon (1768-1826), 1794

Portrait of Carlo Gozzi

Oil on board, 15 x 13 cm

Base cm 27 x 18

Dated and signed "P. Mequignon 1794"

The protagonist portrayed, identified by the inscription Carlo Gozzi Venetian poet, was a playwright and writer (1720-1806). The Gozzi took an animated part in the diatribe with Carlo Goldoni and the need for a renewal in the Venetian theater, showing himself strenuous defender of the old artifices of the Commedia dell'Arte despite the innovations that were introducing the Goldoni. He composed a series of tragedies renewed with comic elements, of which, in the immediate, the public could not appreciate the new ideative vein. Interested in Spanish dramas, Gozzi also produced a series of fairy tales. The fairy tales of Carlo Gozzi published in Bologna for the types i Zanichelli in 1884, reproduce on the first page an engraving portrait of the poet, which has also been used by the artist of the present. 

Of French origin but of Irish nationality, already pupil of the Dublin Society’s Schools, Mequignon presented to the society in 1788 several pictorial replicas of paintings made by ancient masters, obtaining the praise. Moved to London to study at the Royal Academy, the artist showed his work at the annual exhibitions organized by the institution. Back in Dublin, he exhibited many portraits to the local Society of Artists between 1800 and the following year, then followed his pictorial activity between Belfast and London. 

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