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Elisabetta Marchioni VASE OF FLOWERS IN THE OPEN...

Estimate :
4 500 - 6 500 EUR

Elisabetta Marchioni VASE OF FLOWERS IN THE OPEN AIR WITH UPTURNED PLATE oil on canvas, 82x114 cm The work is accompanied by expertise of Professor Ferdinando Arisi Provenance Elleni Arte Antiquariato, Bergamo Private collection, Verona Bibliography Old Master Paintings from XVII to XVIII century, Elleni Arte Antiquariato, Bergamo, s.i.p. The work of Elisabetta Marchioni presented today is an eloquent example of the extraordinary ability of this artist to present flowers outdoors in all their variations. Arranged on a plate and in a large vase, both in embossed metal, the flowers are represented here with a sublime and lively naturalistic rendering. This skill earned the painter a wide public success, even if it was limited to the city of Rovigo where, according to Francesco Bartoli, to whom we owe the only information about her, Elisabetta Marchioni's floral compositions were present in all the collections and even in pairs or in more numerous series. Elisabetta Marchioni was in fact one of the most famous still-life painters of the Baroque age and active in the capital of Polesine between the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century. With her work she anticipated the Venetian floral fantasies of Francesco Guardi, characterised by vases of quick and almost impressionistic modelling, with a dark-reddish background, in order to bring out the colours at their best. Elisabetta Marchioni's artistic production is actually characterised by some peculiar elements: the painter often prefers to place the vases on two different levels in order to create polychrome and exuberant floral cascades, the compositions made up of a vast assortment of flowers rendered freely and imaginatively rather than copied from life; the unfailing "cascades of green". Marchioni's characteristic is in fact the bubbly brushstroke, which defines the multicoloured corollas, but on a chromatic range more contained and subdued than that, bright, of her colleague Margherita Caffi, with whom she often shares similar compositional choices. Bibliography of reference: F. Porzio and F. Zeri, La natura morta in Italia, Milan, 1989 G. and U. Bocchi, Naturalia. Still lifes in public and private collections, Turin, 1992 G. and U. Bocchi, Naturaliter. Nuovi contributi alla natura morta in Italia nord e Toscana tra XVII e XVIII secolo, 1998

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