Vincenzo Cabianca: The Lost Masterpiece
Thursday 20 February, 7pm
Robilant+Voena, 4th & 5th Floor, 19 E 66th Street, New York, NY 10065
Join us in New York for a public talk by Dr. Jason Rosenfeld, Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, and a Senior Writer and Editor-at-Large at The Brooklyn Rail, exploring Vincenzo Cabianca's (1827–1902) painting Ai Bagni di Viareggio (At the Baths of Viareggio), executed in 1866. Long thought to be lost, this masterwork was recently found to be in a private collection, and will be exhibited for the first time since its appearance at the 1866 Turin Promotrice di Belle Arti.
Among the most ambitious works by the Macchiaioli painter, Ai Bagni di Viareggio encapsulates the very essence of Cabianca's intuitive and naturalistic approach to landscape painting. In the talk, Professor Rosenfeld will examine the subject of the work and what it reveals about society at the time, as well as drawing parallels to works by contemporary French artists, especially those of the Barbizon School, and American artists such as Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. These themes are central to Professor Rosenfeld's new study on Cabianca's masterwork, published in Robilant+Voena's latest catalogue, which is available to purchase on our website.
On display alongside Ai Bagni di Viareggio are works on loan from private collections by Eugene Boudin, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet and Achille Etna Michallon, as well as a rarely-seen watercolour by Cabianca on loan from the Brooklyn Museum.
Reserve your place by emailing rsvp@robilantvoena.com.
Please note there will be very limited seating at the talk due to space limitations; most audience members will be asked to stand. If you require a seat, please let us know.
Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., is Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, and a Senior Writer and Editor-at-Large at The Brooklyn Rail where he writes widely about contemporary art and museum exhibitions. He is the co-author of the monograph on Cecily Brown published by Phaidon Press, Ltd. (2020). He was co-curator with Stephen Hannock of the exhibition River Crossings at Cedar Grove, the Thomas Cole National Historical Site, in Catskill, New York, and Olana, in Hudson, New York (2015); co-curator of Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde at Tate Britain, London, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, the Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, and the Palazzo Chiablese, Turin (2012–14); and co-curator of John Everett Millais at Tate Britain, the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, and the Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2007–8). He is the author of John Everett Millais (Phaidon, 2012), and is presently completing a monograph on Shahzia Sikander for Lund Humphries Press, to be published in 2025.