Offered by Antichità Castelbarco
Antonio Gianlisi II, known as Il Cremonese (Rizzolo San Giorgio, 1677 - Cremona, 1727)
Still life with carpet, basket of grapes and figs
Oil on canvas 63 x 75 cm - Framed 80 x 95 cm.
Good condition, old restoration, 19th-century frame
The painting depicts a composition of fruit including a rich selection of white and black grapes contained in a perforated wicker basket and a stand overflowing with succulent purple figs, all arranged on a precious finely embroidered brocade tapestry.
At first glance, it is easy to attribute the painting to Antonio Gianlisi (Rizzolo di San Giorgio, 1677 – Cremona, 1727), whose works perfectly embody the tradition of Baroque still life painting in Northern Italy, and in particular the Bergamo school.
The vocabulary deployed by the Cremonese artist in his paintings and his highly personal representation of objects make Gianlisi's works, such as the one presented here, truly unmistakable. We see the artist's usual characteristics, such as the intimacy of the interiors enclosed by sumptuous curtains trimmed with golden fringes, which in the work in question appear grouped on the left of the canvas, as shown by the cord decorated with a hanging tassel on the right.
The same fringe (Gianlisi's signature) borders the carpet covering the table in the centre of the scene, whose precious silk fabric with floral embroidery illuminates the composition with its glints. The reference to the artist's work is evidenced not only by the usual iconographic repertoire, but also by the composition and arrangement of the carpet, modelled with seemingly disordered folds, so as to alternate light and shadow, giving depth to the composition.
After an apprenticeship with his father, Antonio Gianlisi continued his studies with more renowned artists: first in Piacenza with Felice Boselli, then in Bergamo in the circle of Evaristo Baschenis and Bonaventura Bettera. It should also be noted that he spent a longer period in Venice and travelled to Switzerland, living the last eighteen years of his life in Cremona.
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