Giuseppe Artioli* (18th Century)

Still Lifes of a Cabbage, Onions, a Carrot, Salami and Bread on Stone Ledges

Details

Giuseppe Artioli* (18th Century)
Still Lifes of a Cabbage, Onions, a Carrot, Salami and Bread on Stone Ledges
both signed, dedicated and dated on the reverse 'Confilio, et ope Josephi Blanci patritii mantuani Josephus Artiolius/Centensis tabulam hanc penicillo usus encausto pingebat Mantuae/VI. Dus Dec. an. MDCCLXXXIV.'
oil and encaustic on panel
10¼ x 13¾in. (26 x 35cm.)
A Pair (2)

Provenance

Painted for Giuseppe Blanchi (see inscription on reverse of panel).

Lot Essay

For the artist and the attribution, see M. Natale and A. Morandotti, in F. Zeri, La natura morta in Italia, I, 1989, p. 213, fig. 246 and p. 215, note 103. As Mauro Natale points out (loc. cit.), Artioli's use of encaustic (paint made from pigment mixed with melted beeswax and resin, and after application fixed by heat) is part of a late 18th century Italian revival of interest in Roman wall-painting as a result of the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum which began in 1748 and 1738 respectively.