EARLY 18TH CENTURY NORTH ITALIAN SCHOOL - AN EXTENSIVE WOODLAND LANDSCAPE.

Fine and romantic early 18th century Italian school old master oil painting of and extensive woodland landscape. Of large scale and in a comparatively rare portrait format, this evocative and highly detailed work features a woodland landscape populated with turreted buildings.

In the foreground, and between the branches of several tall sinuous trees is a forest clearing, within which is a stepped terrace and a half ruined building where there are the tantalising remains of an illegible signature above the doorway on the left

Next to this building is a waterfall and in the distance a misty mountainous landscape opens up, with further buildings and a glimpse of a boat upon a river.

This bucolic and calming work has a rich and warm colour palette and has clearly been executed by a most talented hand, it is in an excellent state of conservation and is ready to hang in a later carved and gessoed gilt frame with a wonderful warm antique patina.

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