Andrea Torresani

Landscape with herd of cows, oil on canvas, 60 x 76 cm, Madrid, Prado Museum.

Andrea Torresani or Toresani (Brescia, 1727 - 1760) was an Italian baroque painter specializing in landscapes.

A disciple of Antonio Aureggio, a mediocre landscape painter, he moved to Venice, where he studied the works of Francesco Zuccarelli and perfected both oil painting and pen drawing and watercolor painting. A pen drew portraits as well as sights and landscapes, among them a series of portraits of the most famous musicians of his time, which earned him a certain fame. After a stay in Milan, where he worked mainly for English travelers who appreciated his sights, he returned ill to his native Brescia where he died at the age of thirty-three.

What is known of its production are some marine landscapes with exotic views and ruins, the landscape with a herd of cows from the Prado Museum and a set of drawings in black pencil with portraits of half-body preserved in the Royal Library of Turin, eight drawings of landscapes in the Accademia Carrara and an album with sixty-four drawings, pen and black pencil, with views of cities of France, England, Flanders, Holland and Italy preserved in the Condé Museum of Chantilly. > Bibliography

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