Piedmontese School - The Boy and the Girl on the Grass

This work offers an extraordinary example of 19th-century Romantic historical painting. After the Neoclassical era, which focused on the classical Greek and Roman traditions, the Romantic reaction brought new elements of study and interest. Romanticism, in fact, extolled the virtues of the human spirit, and this was also expressed in a celebration of, and related interest in, the genius of individual peoples. This means that, from the end of the 18th century and throughout the 19th, the new Romantic aesthetic fostered the study of and interest in the traditions and history of peoples. Hence the widespread use of medieval historical subjects, which concerned the vicissitudes of communes or the exaltation of heroic figures contrasting with political situations of tyranny and oppression. In the case of this painting, the historicist and medieval inspiration was channeled into his usual production of sentimental genre scenes, giving these types of subjects a distinctively Romantic definition.

The nature of the work is also perfectly in keeping with the context of medieval historicist painting. Already from the composition, we can detect elements typical of that pictorial genre. We have already mentioned the tone of the scene, marked by the expression of an intensely pathetic sentimentality typical of medieval reenactments of the Romantic era, aimed at exalting the passions and virtues of the soul. Another peculiarity is the eminently didactic nature of the overall setting: the scene is narrated with extreme clarity, with a highly accentuated and even subtly idealized taste in the descriptions of the costumes and the setting. Even from a more strictly stylistic perspective, the prerogatives of 19th-century historicist painting are respected in the development of a style that clearly harks back to the great period of the Italian Renaissance, to Raphael and Titian in particular.

The work has been attributed to a 19th-century Piedmontese artist who distinguished himself by his pursuit of a perfect naturalistic rendering, as well as a perfect atmospheric fusion of the subjects in space, which the artist managed to achieve thanks to the extraordinary quality of his technique.

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