The Temptation — Pietro Longhi
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
The Temptation, painted in 1746 by the Venetian genre painter Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca), captures a scene of gentle scandal in the intimate domestic theater that made the artist famous throughout eighteenth-century Venice. A woman and her procuress are announced to a gentleman seated at his breakfast table in a dressing gown, the composition unfolding with the wry, understated wit that defined Longhi's chronicle of Venetian social life.
Longhi, often called the Venetian counterpart to Hogarth, specialized in small-scale, sharply observed vignettes of daily life among the city's aristocracy and bourgeoisie, rendered with a light touch and gentle irony rather than moralizing judgment. His intimate interiors, populated with beautifully characterized figures and telling domestic detail, offer an invaluable and entertaining window into the private rituals of Venetian society during the waning days of the Republic.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) |
| Year | 1746 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 24 x 19 1/2 in. (61 x 49.5 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Rococo |
