Today we present this splendid pair of oil on canvas paintings depicting vases with flowers, birds, and insects against a dark, neutral background, typical of this type of work, which helps to highlight the naturalistic effects. The groups of flowers are richly adorned and executed with a certain pictorial skill, as it is a very material artist who tends to determine the details and light effects with long, dense and fast brushstrokes. The layout with a brown background is of refined decorative exuberance.
It is likely that these paintings were executed by Margherita Caffi, a Lombard painter praised by historians and critics as early as the eighteenth century; only recently has her work been partially traced and re-evaluated. Active in Milan, in the prolific workshop of her father, Vincenzo Volò, of Burgundian origin, this family workshop is called "dei Vicenzini" and imposed its style from the mid-seventeenth century to the first quarter of the eighteenth century, strongly influencing the taste of Milanese collecting for still life.
The paintings have been recently relined, and during the restoration, they did not receive any pictorial retouching. They are mounted on finely carved posthumous frames.
The dimensions of the canvases are: 100cm x 62cm; with frames 114cm x 77cm.
We attach a certificate of authenticity to the sale.
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