Giacomo Francesco Cipper detto Il Todeschini (1664-1738), Circle of - Figura di popolano

Important collectible painting by
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Giacomo Francesco Cipper, known as Todeschini (Feldkirch, 1664 - Milan, 1736) Area of
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“ Figure of a commoner “
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from around 1700
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Oil on canvas applied to cardboard for conservation purposes
With attribution of art historian and condition report
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Oil on canvas / applied to cardboard - in a 19th century wooden and pastiglia frame
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Measurements: 83 x 68 cm in antique frame
Painting: 65 x 49 cm
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Todeschini was born in Feldrik in 1664 but settled in Milan where he died in 1736. Information regarding his pictorial training is unknown but his artistic influences are certain: we can find debts towards Eberhard Keilhau (1624-1687) born in Denmark but active between 1654 and 1656 in Milan, a painter who dedicated himself to scenes of everyday life of humble people. The assonances between Cipper and Kailhau are therefore to be found in the subject but also in the compositional devices, which often involve the positioning of the characters seated in the foreground or who occupy the entire canvas, leaving less emphasis on the background which is often resolved as an indefinite space or, as in the case in question, in small landscape glimpses.
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Todeschini's main objective is to render with lucid pragmatism the beauty of concrete life, which is justified in a plastic and material formalism, dominated by earthy and bright warm tones, illuminating in their lively optimistic restitution of life. The choice of subjects such as farmers, tombolatrici, beggars and sellers of various merchandise, allowed Cipper to reflect on the seventeenth-century tradition inaugurated by the bamboccianti and to reread in a personal key the examples of Monsù Bernardo and Alessandro Magnasco, with the ambition of transposing their ideas into a 'monumental' structure.
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The artist's Austrian birth and Lombard adoption encouraged contact with the contemporary lesson of the aforementioned Bernard Keilhau, known as Monsù Bernardo, as well as collecting suggestions from the previous Alessandro Allori (1535-1607) and Onofrio Gabrielli (1619-1706) with Pasquale de Rossi (1641-1722) . In 1696 Todeschini appears according to the sources as already resident in Milan, from where he left to subsequently reach the cities of Bergamo and Brescia, where he was active.
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Many of Todeschini's works contain similar depictions to the one presented here, which simultaneously include scenes of daily life involving various characters and sometimes even animals and still lifes of fish, game or fruit and vegetables described with lucid naturalism. See in this regard the crowding of fish in the painting in question, described in minute detail and well rendered especially in the shine of the scales. Paintings by Todeschini similar to the one in question can be found in Fish Sellers at the Palace Museum in Wilanów; Market Scene in a Private Collection demonstrates Todeschini's ability in choral representations, even full-length ones, but it is the gesture of overturning the fish from the basket that recalls the painting in question. But it is in Portarolo and Still Life of Fish that we can observe how Todeschini inserts quotations from his other paintings into his works.
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Ideal work for collecting and investment
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In good condition of conservation, with signs of aging referable to the historical period (see photo)
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The present frame will be attached as a gift - no complaints will be accepted regarding defects or missing items relating to the frame as it is included free of charge
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