Giacomo Ceruti, detto il Pitocchetto (1698-1767), Attrib. - Pitocco

Important oil on canvas work attributed to the painter Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti, called il Pitocchetto (Milan, 13 October 1698 – Milan, 28 August 1767), in good condition. The restoration of the work was carried out by the Campagnola Verona art studio. The painting measures 116.5 x 81 cm. The wonderful, marbleized and original frame of the period. Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti, called il Pitocchetto (Milan, 13 October 1698 – Milan, 28 August 1767), was an Italian painter, counted 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 eighteenth century he was active in Brescia, the city where he earned the nickname “Pitocchetto” for the painting genre whose main subjects were the poor, the outcasts, the vagrants, the peasants (the pitocchi, indeed), depicted in large-format paintings and approached with a documentary style and with a spirit of humane empathy. His artistic path is part of that vein of “reality painting,” which has a secular Lombardy tradition: before him great artists such as Vincenzo Foppa, the Brescia school around Moretto and Savoldo, Caravaggio, all had touched the subject, but none before Ceruti could probe daily truth with such ruthless lucidity. The Portrait of Count Giovanni Maria Fenaroli (1724, Fenaroli collection, Corneto) is his earliest work with certainty attributed to him. 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 kept at the Civic Museum Amedeo Lia in La Spezia, his painting cycle 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 Fast shipping with secure packaging

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