Still life of Giovanni Crivelli - Fish and shellfish on a rock

Features

Artist:  Giovanni Crivelli detto il Crivellino (1680/90-1760)

Artwork title:  Pesci e crostacei su uno scoglio

Age:  18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Subject:  Still life

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Oil on Canvas

Description : Pesci e crostacei su uno scoglio

Oil on canvas. The canvas can be traced back with certainty to the already considerable catalogue of the younger Crivelli, called for precisely Crivellino, to distinguish him from his father and teacher, Angelo Maria. Furthermore, it is the latter, active in Milan until around 1730, the invention of a series of subjects cable cars set in the open air for a long repeated in the workshop shared with the son, and therefore the development of a repertoire of patterns intended to be widely replicated. While riprendendoli according to his personal variation of style, John will build them up thanks to the direct contact with the workshop of Felice Boselli, in which you may have completed your training, as proposed by Ferdinando Arisi who several times occupied by the two artists and milanese of the report of the younger with the parmesan cheese Boselli; his findings are summarized in the monograph Crivellone and Crivellino (Piacenza, 2004) accompanied by a wide range of illustration, and from the general catalogue of both, to which we refer for against a specific. Typical of the Crivellino, and derived precisely from examples of Felice Boselli, is the subject of the painting being examined here, a still life of fish in the open which constitutes one of the contributions most original of John at the repertoire of the workshop, Crivelli. It is found first of all in a vertical composition, signed in full and dated 1721, which is precisely one of his first essays in this genre (Forlì, Pinacoteca Civica; Arisi 2004, tav. 75 p. 517), and then in a series of compositions in the open where he returns, as in our case, the reason of the network in the background, and that of the barrel as a support for fish and shellfish: we cite for example the composition of an oval shape in a private collection in milan (Arisi 2004, fig. 53 p. 325); one in a private collection in Piacenza (Arisi 2004, fig. 88 p. 350) and another (p. 351, fig. 90) derived in a text from an example of Felice Boselli. The painting,previously restored, it has some loss of colour; in need of restoration and ritelatura. Presented in contemporary frame.

Product Condition:
Already restored, has some shortcomings. In need of restoration, cleaning and ritelatura.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 127
Width: 157
Depth: 4

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 118
Width: 148

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