Description:
Still life with vase of flowers and fruit
Margherita Caffi (Cremona, 1647 - Milan, 1710)
Oil on canvas
Lombard School of the late 17th century
Canvas cm. 45 x 50
Frame cm. 56 x 70
Excellent condition
This beautiful still life, depicting a Medici vase full of flowers together with various types of fruit, should be included in the production of
Margherita Caffi (Cremona, 1647 – Milan, September 20, 1710) an excellent Italian painter, famous for her floral compositions.
Certainly inspired by similar Nordic paintings, Caffi shows extreme freedom in her pictorial execution, with free and lively brushstrokes, which present many analogies with the Venetian painting of Elisabetta Marchioni.
In her canvases she does not use landscape backgrounds and the bouquets of flowers are often arranged in two groups of different sizes and irregular shapes, which give an asymmetrical movement to the composition.
The botanical species radiate lights and colors, in contrast with the dark backgrounds of the internal and closed environments.
Unlike her northern European contemporaries, she does not seem to show any scientific intention in describing the flowers, so much so that she even invented species of flowers following the whim of her imagination.
We can certainly say that the canvas published here clearly expresses all the peculiarities of her painting, always sumptuous and exuberant even in canvases of small dimensions as in this case.
The painting is in excellent condition, professionally cleaned and relined. The golden frame is of recent production.
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