Pietro Rotari

Rotari, Pietro conte

Venetian, 1707 - 1762

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Italian painter of Baroque period (1707–1762)

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Shown from the chest up, a young woman with smooth, pale skin sleeps with her head tipped away from us in this vertical painting. Her face leans to our left so we see her delicate features in profile. She has faint brows, and her pink lips are parted. The tip of her nose and cheeks are also lightly flushed. Her brown curls are topped with a black fur cap, which is draped with a triangular, muted red cloth. The cloth comes to a point with a gold tassel, which hangs alongside her neck. A flaring, pleated, white collar encircles her neck, seeming unconnected to her other garments. Her topaz-blue bodice is open to show a butter-yellow corset beneath. The jacket is lined with cool, shimmering green. Her head tips alongside the arched, wooden back of her chair, which is upholstered with caramel brown edged with gold. The background is washed with tones of olive and dark green. The painting is created with blended strokes, giving it a soft, almost blurry appearance.
Pietro Rotari, A Sleeping Girl, 1760/1762, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.107

A Sleeping Girl

Pietro Rotari · 1760/1762 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1939.1.107

Shown from the shoulders up, a young woman with pale skin, dark hair, and wearing a muted turquoise bodice over a white shirt, peers at us against an olive-green background in this vertical portrait painting. Her shoulders are angled slightly to our left, and she tips her head away from us, over her right shoulder, to our left. With her chin jutting a bit toward us, she looks at us from the corners of her heavy-lidded, dark green eyes under arched brows. She has a straight nose, and her smooth cheeks are flushed. The corners of her closed, peach-colored lips are barely pulled back in a faint smile. Her chestnut-brown hair is pulled back, and short curls frame her face in front of her ears. She wears a white, ruffled flower with a white bud and deep green leaves in her hair over her left temple, to our right. A dark rope or twisted fabric encircles her neck, and she gathers the long ends in her right hand, to our left, at her chest. One long curl wraps around the fabric, to our left. Her chest is smooth, and the backs of her fingers are touched with coral pink. Her low-cut, muted blue bodice is worn over a full-sleeved, white shirt pleated below the shoulders. She is lit from our left so casts a shadow against the olive-green wall to our right.
Pietro Rotari, A Girl with a Flower in Her Hair, 1760/1762, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.108

A Girl with a Flower in Her Hair

Pietro Rotari · 1760/1762 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1939.1.108

Pietro Rotari, An Elegant Young Lady with a Lace Cap, 1750/1756, pastel on beige prepared canvas (on a strainer), The Ahmanson Foundation, 2015.201.1

An Elegant Young Lady with a Lace Cap

Pietro Rotari · 1750/1756 · pastel on beige prepared canvas (on a strainer) ·  Accession ID  2015.201.1

Pietro Rotari, Venus Appearing to Achilles, 1725, etching with engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.17.3

Venus Appearing to Achilles

Pietro Rotari · 1725 · etching with engraving ·  Accession ID  1982.17.3

Pietro Rotari, Saint Jerome, 1725, engraving and etching on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1996.113.16

Saint Jerome

Pietro Rotari · 1725 · engraving and etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1996.113.16

Pietro Rotari, Saint Francis, 1730-1762, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1974.55.15

Saint Francis

Pietro Rotari · 1730-1762 · etching ·  Accession ID  1974.55.15

Bibliography

1941

  • Barbarani, Emilio. Pietro Rotari. Verona, 1941.

1969

  • Nikolenko, Lada. "Pietro Rotari in Russia and America." The Connoisseur 171 (July 1969): 191-196.

1980

  • Fiocco Drei, Carola. "Pietro Rotari." Antichità viva 19 (1980): 23-32.

1990

  • Polazzo, Marco. Pietro Rotari: pittore veronese del settecento. Verona, 1990.

1996

  • De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 243.