Giovanni Michele Graneri (Turin, 1708-1762)
Spinner
Dishwasher
Cheese seller
Pot seller (San Felice da Cantarice)
Washerwoman
Fortune Dispenser
Brawl
Card players
Autumn
Knife grinder
Seamstress
Winter
Dimensions 32 x 42 cm each
Paints with certificate of free circulation.
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Giovanni Michele Graneri, one of the most significant representatives of that lively and important genre and bambocciata painting current, which flourished in Turin, with great success, throughout the eighteenth century, has been the subject of historical and artistic analysis for some years. The painter was born in the subalpine capital on September 28, 1708 to a modest family of artisans and died in Turin on February 26, 1762. To date, no documents are known regarding his artistic training, which certainly took place, as recalled by late eighteenth-century sources and as evidenced by his own paintings, in the wake of the great Turin painter Pietro Domenico Ollivero (1679-1755). From his early works, Graneri appears, however, well distinguishable from the great master: in fact, he presents a distinctive personal style, less refined and less inclined to meditation, but rich...
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