Portrait of Amadeo Svajer
by CANOVA, Antonio, Oil on canvas, 107 x 87 cm
Canova produced some paintings, too. His paintings have the sfumato and eroticism that one associates with such proto-Romantics of the Napoleonic period as Prud’hon and Girodet.
This unfinished painting portrays Amadeo Svajer, a celebrated antiquary.