- 545
Francesco Maggiotto
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description
- Francesco Maggiotto
- A hunter handing coins to a fruit seller, a child clutching her apron;A hunter with his companion, a spaniel and the spoils of his hunt
- a pair, both oil on canvas
Catalogue Note
These paintings are based on elements of a drawing by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta in the Pierpoint Morgan Library, New York, whose figures are depicted full-length.1 The figure of the crouching hunter also replicates that in Piazzetta's painting formerly in the Cailleux collection, which shows the young man similarly cropped to show just his head chest and arms with the spaniel at his elbow, but excluding his companion.2 The hunter buying fruit is instead inspired by the standing figure in the Pierpoint Morgan drawing, with the same brimmed hat and slouched coat of his shoulders.
We are grateful to Lino Moretti for confirming the attribution based on photographs.
1. R. Pallucchini and A. Mariuz, L'opera completa di Piazzetta, Milan 1982, p. 77, under cat. no. 12, reproduced fig. 12a.
2. Ibid., cat. no. 12, reproduced fig. 12