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STILL LIFE WITH OLIVES, FIGUES, CHEESE, CALERIES, A BOTTLE AND A GLASS 1700, 1700

Giacomo Francesco Cipper. called Todeschini

Exhibited by Matteo Salamon - Milan

Material oil on canvas

Dimensions 49.5 × 67.5 cm

Status Vetted

About the Work

This canvas is a key work for understanding Cipper’s production and his role as a still-life painter, a genre he explored extensively. Unlike the many small still-life elements scattered within his more famous narrative scenes -or other works attributed to him purely on stylistic grounds- this painting is actually signed and dated, as Cipper usually did only for more ambitious and often later compositions. Remarkably, it is the only signed still life of its kind and the earliest dated work in his entire catalogue.

This suggests that Cipper may have focused on still life particularly at the beginning of his career, developing a specialist’s mastery that he later used to enrich and add realism to his genre scenes.

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Provenance

Private collection

Literature

LITERATURE
L. Tognoli, Giacomo Francesco Cipper il Todeschini e la pittura di genere, Bergamo, 1976, pag. 153, n. 87, ill. 6
G. Anzani, Una Natura Morta di Giacomo Francesco Cipper detto il Todeschini, in Antichità Viva, 1977, XVI, n. 1, pagg. 30-32
L. Salerno, La natura morta in Italia. 1560 - 1825, Rome, 1984, pag. 354, n. 107.2
A. Morandotti, La Natura Morta in Italia, Milan, 1989, I, pag. 288, n. 338
S. Proni, Giacomo Francesco Cipper detto “il Todeschini”, Milan, 1994, pag. 38 - 39
G. Godi, Fasto e rigore. La natura morta nell’Italia settentrionale dal XVI al XVIII secolo, 2000, pag. 172
A. Morandotti, Icone lombarde: la natura morta dalle origini all’età della riforma settecentesca, in Fasto e rigore, 2000, p. 50
B. Sarrazin, in Tableaux de Giacomo Francesco Cipper, dit il Todeschini (1664-1736) conservés dans les musées de France, in “Revue du Louvre”, 2000, pag. 72
G.Gruber, Realistic elements in the work of Giacomo Francesco Cipper before 1715, in Artibus et Historiae, XXII, 2001, pag. 124, note 6
G.Gruber, Vie et oeuvre de Giacomo Francesco Cipper, in Autour de Giacomo, 2005, pag. 31
M.S.Proni – D. Ton, Il Teatro del Quotidiano. Giacomo Francesco Cipper “Tedesco” (1664-1736), 2025, pag. 172-173, n. I.12
FOTOTECA ZERI
n. 85999