Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

The overall condition is good. The colors remain vibrant and strong. There are some areas where the medium has cracked slightly showing the support beneath, this is mainly concentrated at the four corners of the board. Sold in a modern gilded frame.
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Bison produced a number of mythological subjects and capricci in picturesque and classical landscapes, using tempera.  These extremely decorative painted scenes were finished works of art in their own right, and in high demand among collects ors.  Generally large, like the present example, and executed with a subtle and delicate palette of colors, they must have been treated like paintings and framed for display.  Bison generally painted these works on cardboard, preparing the board with a colored ground prior to applying the tempera.  The present work can be closely compared with two others now in a private collects ion, which have been laid down on canvas.  Both represent mythological subjects in extensive landscapes: The Judgement of Paris and Diana and Callisto.¹  Bison is better known for his views of Venice in which he continued the tradition of representing familiar places and images, which have made the Venetian 18th century one of the most inviting centuries in art.  

1.  F. Magnani, Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Soncino 1993, p. 60, both reproduced p. 61