Lot Essay
These paintings had been recognised as by Paoletti by Professor Piero Sticotti, director of the Museo Revoltella in Trieste from 1926 to 1929. The attribution has since been confirmed by Professor Miotti in the catalogue of the Udine exhibition in 1954.
Little is known of Paolo Paoletti, who was active almost exclusively in the Friuli region, where he painted for private patrons specializing in still lifes. His apprenticeship is not recorded, but at the time he was considered to be the Italian Daniel Seghers and his style shows a continuing evolution that demonstrates his assiduous study of Venetian as well as Flemish art. In his later career, he experimented by introducing landscape and capriccio elements from the Venetian tradition into his still life compositions, as these paintings clearly demonstrate, as well as those in the Passamonti collection, and in the Prefettura, Trieste (Miotti, op. cit., p. 18, pls. 12 and 13).
Little is known of Paolo Paoletti, who was active almost exclusively in the Friuli region, where he painted for private patrons specializing in still lifes. His apprenticeship is not recorded, but at the time he was considered to be the Italian Daniel Seghers and his style shows a continuing evolution that demonstrates his assiduous study of Venetian as well as Flemish art. In his later career, he experimented by introducing landscape and capriccio elements from the Venetian tradition into his still life compositions, as these paintings clearly demonstrate, as well as those in the Passamonti collection, and in the Prefettura, Trieste (Miotti, op. cit., p. 18, pls. 12 and 13).