Attributable to Oreste Da Molin - Double portrait

The portrait is one of the most widespread artistic expressions in the field especially
of painting, but also of sculpture, in all eras. The portrait is, first of all
place, a description of the subject represented, an attempt to bring back to
his physiognomy and his individual characteristics truthfully and naturally.
With the progressive evolution of artistic research towards physiognomic description
of the subject was also accompanied by the psychological one. Therefore the portrait, in
centuries, it has also become a means of introspective investigation on the subject, on the
his character and his state of mind. They intervened in favor of this type
of investigation, the processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art.

In the execution of this double portrait Oreste Da Molin demonstrates that he has
a remarkable pictorial technique, so much so as to allow him to achieve a perfect rendering
naturalistic view of the two subjects. They appear in a frontal shot, but
with light and very natural twists. There is great precision and
wealth of details from the physiognomic point of view, in a conception of the
essential portrait, which focuses all the attention on the personality of the
subjects. In addition to this great study of character, the painter
It is also distinguished by a loose brushstroke that creates a delicate softness
of the model. The shapes of the two figures blend gently with the space
decontextualized from the background. The use of light is very clever and enhances
the plastic consistency of the subjects. The demeanor, the serious expression and
concentrated, they tell us a lot about the realistic and existential character of this
double painting, also confirmed by the pictorial, dynamic, vibrant layout of
vitality.

Oreste Da Molin (Piove di Sacco, 1856 – 1921) learns the first rudiments of
drawing at the Graphic School of his hometown, Pieve di Sacco. Soon
Oreste Da Molin remains an orphan of his father, who however, noted his attitudes
artistic, before dying he had arranged for him to be enrolled in the Academy of
Venice. At the Venetian, Milanese, Turinese and even foreign exhibitions, Oreste Da
Molin achieved immediate public success. He was often awarded for his
his genre paintings inspired by the language of Giacomo Favretto (1849-1887),
with which he also won over the French critics at the Salon. He exhibited there for several
years, from 1882 to 1914, with some brief interruptions, and entering into
part of the Union International des Beaux Arts in Paris. Its delightful and
light genre paintings, also inspired by eighteenth-century costume, obtain
a great success in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Barcelona,
London and Prague. We must not forget his work as a portrait painter, in which,
with a delicate and loose brushstroke, vibrant with light, he represents women and
men of the people, but also more prominent personalities.

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