Giacomo Francesco Cipper detto IL Todeschini (1664-1736) [cerchia di] - Ritratto di anziana

\Artist: Giacomo Francesco Cipper detto IL Todeschini (1664-1736) [cerchia di]
Technique: olio su tela cm. 74 x 59\Signature: Not signed\Dimensions: 100_12_80_cm
Giacomo Francesco Cipper known as Il Todeschini (Feldkirch, 1664 - Milan, 1736) [circle of] Portrait of old woman Oil on canvas, cm. 74 x 59 Size with frame, cm. 94 x 79 x 6 NOTES: Certificate of Guarantee and Lawful Origin. Work with gilt frame (Defects) : ". . . The work, selected on contrasting colors with strong enamelled lighting, presents an elderly woman with her gaze not turned to the viewer, to the right turned to the right, in the act of carrying out an action. The painting, in fact, shows us emerging from the shadow of the background, a portrait of a mature female figure, with a white bandana in the hats, and with a burnished-colored clothing of the time. The canvas in question, by layout and style, can be identified - with caution - in the hand of a painter who looks at (circle of) Giacomo Francesco Cipper, known as Todeschini (1664-1736) . Of Austrian origin, the time when Todeschini moved to Italy is unknown; in 1696 he was resident in Milan, where he married the daughter of a notary, Giulia Francesca Galdone. He was mainly active in the Milanese city, in Bergamo and Brescia, becoming Lombard by adoption. During his creative journey, Cipper renewed the seventeenth-century tradition of the Bamboccianti by reinterpreting the examples of Monsù Bernardo and Magnasco in a personal way. His works show the ambition to transfer his ideas with a monumental spirit, dedicating himself to a realistic definition of everyday objects, foods and furnishings, reaching the maximum consequences of the comic and grotesque tradition, which in the Lombard area finds the its maximum expression since the Renaissance with Caravaggesque naturalism. His works of the first decade are often chromatically vivid and set outdoors, while, in subsequent years, Todeschini will increasingly turn towards indoor compositions, graceful in colors, but always theatrical and laughing in tone. On the basis of critical insights into his work, Alessandro Morandotti brings back his repertoire of peasants who eat, gypsy scenes, card or morra players, concerts, music lessons, fish sellers, and his "complexions boldly resolved with barely brown tones lit by strokes of red and white "to the lesson of the Danish painter Eberhard Keil, known as Monsù Bernardo (1624–1687) , who lived in Rome in the second half of the seventeenth century and who drew most of the motifs of his scenes between Rome and Naples type. Unlike, however, the other painters of genre scenes of the seventeenth century, such as many Caravaggeschi, but also of the eighteenth, think, for example, of Ceruti, and despite his undoubted technical virtuosity, Todeschini carefully banished any attitude from his painting pensive or melancholy and every psychological and social intent, always keeping, for personal character and, perhaps, for the taste of his clientele, within a smiling and lively humor. Regarding its state of conservation, the canvas is in fair general condition considering the time of the painting, the pictorial surface shows a patina varnish. We can see - in Wood's light - some small scattered restorations and some unveiling and oxidation of the pictorial surface. There are also some small drops of color scattered throughout the canvas, in particular in the lower left corner (see photo) . All this does not allow to evaluate a careful attributive evaluation. The measures of the canvas are cm. 74 x 59. The painting is sold with a gilded frame (the measurements of the frame are approx. 94 x 79 x 6 cm, defects) . ORIGIN: Coll. private PUBLICATION: Unpublished; MYTHS AND THE TERRITORY in Sicily with a thousand cultures. UNPUBLISHED QUADRERIA general catalog of paintings from the collection of the “Myths and the territory” cycle, Publisher Lab_04, Marsala, (in print 2021) . We also guarantee accurate packaging with external wooden crate and bubble wrap / cardboard / internal polystyrene (packaging cost approximately € 100. 00) and tracked shipping (€ 100. 00 Italy) . For export, the work is subject to a request for a Certificate of Free Movement (European Community) or Certificate of Export (Extra-Community Transport) , at the export office (Superintendence of the territory) with the times and costs incurred ( € 300 / € 500, all included: shipping, packaging and particular exports) .