Giacomo Francesco Cipper – “il Todeschini”, Young man eating from a wooden bowl, oil on canvas, Italy, 1st third of the 18th century
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The portrait shows a young man hailing from the plebeian strata, framed in half pose, sitting against a neutral dark background. The boy is facing frontally, his cheerful expression emphasized by a wide smile revealing his teeth. In his right hand he holds a large wooden bowl, while in his left hand he holds a spoon with which he scoops up the food. The young man is dressed in a white shirt and a simple chestnut cubicle, as well as a tricorn, which is a distinctive triangular hat, decorated with a feather. In the lower left corner of the painting, a section of the table is visible, on which lies an unleavened loaf of bread.
The color palette is maintained in tones of warm browns, reds and ochres, with clear chiaroscuro contrasts that artfully model the face and hands and bring out the figure from the dark background.
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Biography
Giacomo Francesco Cipper was born in 1664 in Feldkirch, Austria, very close to the border with Switzerland, which was then part of the Holy Roman Empire. It is not known where Cipper received his art training or from whom, but in 1696 it was recorded that he lived in Milan. There he married and had ten children, suggesting that he had considerable success as a painter. Cipper specialized in painting human types from the margins of society - beggars, street vendors and vagrants. Giacomo Ceruti (1697-1767) also later aimed at the same subject matter. Perhaps influenced by Ceruti (some of whose works were once attributed to Cipper), he moved away from meticulous observation of detail, replacing it with a less representational vision, more sensitive to the play of light.
Cipper's earliest dated painting is a still life from 1700 (private collection); many of his larger works also include still-life elements in their compositions. Cipper died in 1736.
| Dimensions | 85 × 64,5 cm |
|---|---|
| Type |
Image |
| Form |
Portrait of a boy eating from a bowl |
| Kolorystyka |
Black ,Brown ,Flesh ,White |
| Technika |
Oil on canvas |
| Czas powstania |
First third of the 18th century |
| Era |
Baroque |
| Kraj pochodzenia |
Italy |
| Autor |
Giacomo Francesco Cipper "Il Todeschini" (1664 – 1736) |
| State of preservation |
Very good, after conservation, minor repainting |
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