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Lot description
The present canvas displays the most relevant and distinctive elements in Rosi´s œuvre: the vibrant palette and the richness of the details, the virtuoso brushwork and the highly skilled draughtsmanship. The composition, pushed onto the foreground and counterpointed by the repoussoir figure on the left, is typical for the artist, and can be compared to other works by the painter executed in the 1650s, when the same model appears rather frequently. The figure of Agar relates in her posture to examples by Cesare Dandini, by whom Rosi solved his apprenticeship and by whom the latter was strongly influenced, especially in the first part of his career. An eclectic painter, remembered by the historic sources for his flamboyant personality («Pittore di modi [...] negromantici», as Roberto Longhi described him), Rosi found great appreciation amongst some of the major Florentine patrons of the time, such as the Corsini and Rinuccini; Cosimo III also commissioned him a series of tapestries. The painter gained a considerable fortune in his days, but in modern times his work was often confused with that of Sigismondo Coccapani, a Florentine contemporary who worked in a comparable style.