Venetian School; second half of the XVIII century. "Pregnant woman". Drawing on paper.

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  Venetian School; second half of the XVIII century. "Pregnant woman". Drawing on paper. It has rust stains. Size: 41 x 35,5 cm; 17 x 10,7 cm (frame). In this work the author presents the portrait of a pregnant woman. For it the artist plays with the lines, which, in spite of their angularity, are in a certain way softened and nuanced. In the work the author has used an aesthetic where the form and the exercise of it predominate over the detail, although it is worth mentioning that in a certain way the woman's features are close to the grotesque, as if it were a satirization of the figure of the peasant woman. This is intuited by the clothes that the lady wears, her bonnet, the shoes and the simple attire she wears. This composition and the theme treated by the author, is typical of the scenes of reality that were so demanded during the time, influenced in these themes by the picaresque literature of the time, bringing the piece closer to the naturalist current. It is a genre in which popular types and attitudes, behaviors, values and habits common to a specific group of the population, region or class are described by means of a satirical, nostalgic or narrative description of the environments, customs, clothing, parties and entertainment, traditions, trades and representative types of a society. The idea of costumbrismo arose from an attempt to understand reality, or more precisely, reality understood in a particular way, from a specific point of view.
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