GIACOMO FRANCESCO CIPPER, CALLED TODESCHINI | A PEASANT AND A SPINNER WITH DEAD GAME

Private collection, Peru;

Thence by descent.

Although of Austrian origin, Todeschini spent most of his career in Italy where he specialized in genre scenes, many of which included dramatically lit still lifes like the present example. The wide smile of the figures in this scene as well as the slight gap between their squared teeth are characteristic details commonly used by Todeschini. The peasant boy holding a dead animal and the rabbit hanging from his leg appear in another work by Todeschini from 1700-10 in a private collection, Milan ^[1]. We are grateful to Dr. Maria Silvia Proni for endorsing the attribution to Giacomo Francesco Cipper on the basis of photographs.

^1. Oil on canvas, 134 by 176 cm. See R. Bossaglia and V. Terraroli, Settecento lombardo, exhibition catalogue, Milan 1991, pp. 101-2, no. I.50, reproduced p. 99.