Pietro Bellotto o Bellotti (Volciano 1625 - Gargnano... Lot n° 79

Pietro Bellotto or Bellotti (Volciano 1625 - Gargnano 1700) attributed. Face of smiling commoner Oil on canvas 49 x 37 cm According to Orlandi he was a pupil of Girolamo Forabosco, but his naturalism was certainly influenced by the caricatures of Nicolas Lagneau and the popular motifs etched by Jacques Callot. He was renowned for his half-figures drawn with caricatured expressions and minutely investigated. His incisive brushwork and dry subject matter cause his painting technique to be likened to that of some northern Caravaggists. He was most likely influenced by the subjects and pictorial modes of Eberhard Keil, Monsù Bernardo, thanks to whom the pitocchi subjects typical of the Flemish and Dutch came to Venice. Pietro Bellotto or Bellotti (Volciano 1625 - Gargnano 1700) attributed. The Face of a Smiling Commoner Oil on canvas 49 x 37 cm