Giacomo Ceruti, detto il Pitocchetto (1698-1767), Attrib. - Pitocco
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Pitocco is an 18th-century Italian oil portrait dated 1730, attributed to Giacomo Ceruti, detto il Pitocchetto, and sold with a frame.
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Important oil on canvas painting attributed to the painter Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti, called Il Pitocchetto (Milan, October 13, 1698 – Milan, August 28, 1767) in good preserved condition.
The restoration of the work was carried out by the Campagnola Verona art studio.
The painting measures 116.5 cm by 81 cm.
The wonderful marbleized original frame is from the period.
Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti, called Il Pitocchetto (Milan, October 13, 1698 – Milan, August 28, 1767), was an Italian painter, listed among the most important exponents of late Italian Baroque. He was born in Milan, probably the son of Fabiano Ceruti who was a pupil of Cristoforo Agricola; from the early twenties of the 18th century he was active in Brescia, a city where he earned the nickname “Pitocchetto” for the genre of painting whose main subjects were the poor, the outcasts, the wanderers, the peasants (the pitocchi, indeed), depicted in large-scale works and depicted with a documentary style and with a spirit of human empathy. His artistic path is part of that strand of “realism painting,” which has a secular tradition in Lombardy: before him, great artists like Vincenzo Foppa, the Brescia school around Moretto and Savoldo, Caravaggio, had all touched the subject, but none before Ceruti could investigate daily truth with such ruthless clarity. The Portrait of Count Giovanni Maria Fenaroli (1724, Fenaroli collection, Corneto) is his first work of certain attribution. Among the works that made him famous are The Laundress (circa 1736), currently at the Tosio Martinengo Gallery in Brescia, and the many still lifes. Around 1765 he painted the Portrait of a Wayfarer now conserved at the Civic Museum Amedeo Lia in La Spezia, his cycle of paintings at the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta in Gandino.
The reevaluation of his figure is due to Roberto Longhi.
Provenance: Italian antique market.
The work is sold with the critical sheet and expertise.
Quick shipment with secure packing.
Seller's Story
Art dealer specializing in the research and sale of antique paintings and 19th- and 20th-century works.
Associated with F.I.M.A. Federazione Italiana Mercanti d'Arte.
Present at the most important antique fairs in Italy.
All works are carefully examined before sale to ensure the utmost professionalism and authenticity.
In collaboration with ART & INVESTIGATION, historical-art investigations into works of art.
Translated by Google TranslateImportant oil on canvas painting attributed to the painter Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti, called Il Pitocchetto (Milan, October 13, 1698 – Milan, August 28, 1767) in good preserved condition.
The restoration of the work was carried out by the Campagnola Verona art studio.
The painting measures 116.5 cm by 81 cm.
The wonderful marbleized original frame is from the period.
Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti, called Il Pitocchetto (Milan, October 13, 1698 – Milan, August 28, 1767), was an Italian painter, listed among the most important exponents of late Italian Baroque. He was born in Milan, probably the son of Fabiano Ceruti who was a pupil of Cristoforo Agricola; from the early twenties of the 18th century he was active in Brescia, a city where he earned the nickname “Pitocchetto” for the genre of painting whose main subjects were the poor, the outcasts, the wanderers, the peasants (the pitocchi, indeed), depicted in large-scale works and depicted with a documentary style and with a spirit of human empathy. His artistic path is part of that strand of “realism painting,” which has a secular tradition in Lombardy: before him, great artists like Vincenzo Foppa, the Brescia school around Moretto and Savoldo, Caravaggio, had all touched the subject, but none before Ceruti could investigate daily truth with such ruthless clarity. The Portrait of Count Giovanni Maria Fenaroli (1724, Fenaroli collection, Corneto) is his first work of certain attribution. Among the works that made him famous are The Laundress (circa 1736), currently at the Tosio Martinengo Gallery in Brescia, and the many still lifes. Around 1765 he painted the Portrait of a Wayfarer now conserved at the Civic Museum Amedeo Lia in La Spezia, his cycle of paintings at the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta in Gandino.
The reevaluation of his figure is due to Roberto Longhi.
Provenance: Italian antique market.
The work is sold with the critical sheet and expertise.
Quick shipment with secure packing.
Seller's Story
Art dealer specializing in the research and sale of antique paintings and 19th- and 20th-century works.
Associated with F.I.M.A. Federazione Italiana Mercanti d'Arte.
Present at the most important antique fairs in Italy.
All works are carefully examined before sale to ensure the utmost professionalism and authenticity.
In collaboration with ART & INVESTIGATION, historical-art investigations into works of art.
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Artist
Giacomo Ceruti, detto il Pitocchetto (1698-1767), Attrib.
Title of artwork
Pitocco
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Not signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
1730
Condition
Good condition
Height
127 cm
Width
91.5 cm
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Period
18th century
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