Two Venetian Ladies

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Two Venetian Ladies
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Artist Vittore Carpaccio
Yearc. 1490
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions94 cm× 64 cm(37 in× 25 in)
Location Museo Correr, Venice

Two Venetian Ladies is an oil on panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio.

The painting, believed to be a quarter of the original work, was executed around 1490 and shows two unknown Venetian ladies. The top portion of the panel, called Hunting on the Lagoon is in the Getty Museum, and another matching panel is missing. The painting was formerly considered to show two courtesans. Modern art historians think them more likely members to be of the patrician Torella family, as suggested by their fine clothes and the pearl necklaces, but academic debate continues, as with other similar Venetian paintings of the period. [1] Several objects - the white kerchief, the pearls and the animals (the doves, Venus's bird) are symbols of chastity. Note the chopines, or platform clogs, on the left.

Another painted panel, now in the Getty Museum , was published in 1944, and it was later realized that this is part of the same work, fitting above this part: it portrays several boats in a lagoon, and would explain the meaning of the scene, as two women awaiting their husbands' return after an expedition hunting, or fishing with cormorants, in the Venetian lagoon. This discovery was verified by an in depth technical analysis, comparing the two fragmentary panels. [2] Another panel the same size as these two combined would have been on the left; probably the two were hinged together to make a diptych, or a folding door or shutter. The Getty panel has an illusionistic letter rack painted on the back of the panel, which was presumably matched on this panel. This appears to be the earliest small-scale trompe-l'œil painting since antiquity.

Hunting on the Lagoon and Two Venetian ladies {reconstruction} Vittore carpaccio, due dame veneziane e caccia in laguna.jpg
Hunting on the Lagoon and Two Venetian ladies {reconstruction}

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References

  1. The Lady and the Laurel: Gender and Meaning in Giorgione's "Laura", Anne Christine Junkerman, Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1 (1993), pp. 49-58
  2. Szafran, Yvonne (March 1995). "Carpaccio's 'Hunting on the Lagoon': A New Perspective". The Burlington Magazine. 137 (1104): 148–158.