GIOVANNI STANCHI (ROME 1608-CARRIED 1675) BOUQUETS... Lot 41

GIOVANNI STANCHI (ROME 1608-CARRIED 1675) BOUQUETS DE FLEURS DANS DES VASES À DÉCOR DE BACCHANALES Pair of canvasses Old restorations Bouquets of flowers in vases with bacchanal decoration, pair of canvasses, old restorations 97 x 73 cm - 38,2 x 28,7 in. In the 1660s, Giovanni Stanchi and Mario dei Fiori, inspired by the garlands of flowers executed by Flemish artists in Rome, diffused new floral motifs that harmonized with the fashion for galleries decorated with painted mirrors. Giovanni worked with his brothers Niccolo and Angelo for the greatest Roman families: the Barberini, Borghese, Pamphili, Chigi, Colonna... Here we find his taste for abundant, free and sometimes disorderly bouquets, which he prefers to a too strict arrangement. The Mirror painted with a vase of flowers and five putti (248 x 166 cm) preserved in the Palazzo Colonna in Rome is a fine example (Cf. Federico Zeri: La natura morta in Italia, T.II p. 772, Cat. 904, Milan, 1989).