Circa 1700-1710
Oil on canvas, 57 x 80 cm.
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This dynamic "Scene of peasant market" is the work of Pietro Domenico Ollivero, the best-known of the Piedmontese painters of bambocciate and genre representations. The "bizarre and valiant" artist was born in Turin "of a very ugly appearance, and with a body that was ill-formed and crippled" but with a "happy and jovial" temperament (Durando 1778, pp. 40-41). The investigations conducted so far have not made it possible to identify his early training path with certainty; ancient sources indicate the painter and architect Bianco as his first master (San Martino 1787, p. 5; Cifani, Monetti 1993, vol. I, p. 130). Ollivero's artistic gifts and lively spirit favor the rapid development of his substantial pictorial production, which began as early as the end of the seventeenth century and was soon supported by the convinced appreciation of the Savoy sovereigns, Vittorio Amedeo II and Carlo Emanuele III, and of the illustrious exponents of the subalpine court, such as the Marquis Carlo Vincenzo Ferrero d'Ormea (Vesme 1963-1982, III, 1968, pp. 744-749; Cifani, Monetti 2005, p. 104). The painter is also esteemed by contemporary artists such as Claudio Francesco Beaumont, who willingly accepts his advice in the execution of the Galleria di Enea (now Armeria Reale), or Massimo Teodoro Michela, Scipione Cignaroli, Pietro Francesco and Giovanni Domenico Gambone, with whom he collaborated for a long time animating their... (See 2013 catalog)
[Simone Mattiello]
Dimensions HxWxD
Height cm.: 57
Width cm.: 80
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