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Alessandro de pesciAlessandro de' Pesci (active until 1750), Fish seller18th 18th Century
18th 18th Century
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Alessandro de' Pesci (active until 1750)
Fish seller
Oil on canvas, 137 x 84 cm
Critical Record Prof. Alberto Crispo
Still life with a fish theme can be chronologically framed between the late 17th and early 18th centuries while the school to which we can refer is the Neapolitan school. Indeed, the work finds many tangents with the treatment of this genre operated in Naples during the seventeenth century and continued into the following century, often also through the heirs of families and workshops that had established themselves both in the city and beyond, including the De Caro, De Matteis and Recco families. A still life piece stands out in the canvas, detaching itself from the rest of the work, positioning itself in the lower portion and enjoying greater illumination than the seated fisherman who occupies the higher portion with his figure; if one observes the rendering of the scales or carapace of the turtle, another recurring subject in the still lifes of these artists and others of their countrymen such as Baldassarre de Caro, one finds a drafting with small clear and shimmering touches that we find in the works of the one who, precisely, has long been considered the Master of the dotted fish. The name of this anonymous artist has been assigned to many still life works featuring fish and shellfish, which have since often been referred to the hand of Elena Recco, daughter of painter Giuseppe, who in turn was instructed in painting by her father and uncle. This characteristic of his made one part of the critics develop the above-mentioned pseudonym, which was also used for another personality of the same period, namely Alessandro de' Pesci, an artist to whom this canvas can be referred and who was active in Rome in the second half of the eighteenth century; few works are preserved of him and his biography is still incomplete for long stretches. The canvases are now at the Flesh Museum in Ajaccio, an institution established through donations from Corsican Cardinal Joseph Fesh, who amassed an immense collection of artwork during his time in Rome as a cardinal. In Alexander's canvases, one finds the punctiform drafting of color, the arrangement and posing of the marine subjects in the work in question, with a firmer, more compact drafting and lighter, sharper tones than those of Reco, with whom he has long shared the same pseudonym. Certainly both look carefully to the teachings and stylistic features of the Neapolitan school, for the use of intense chiaroscuro that is suddenly broken by areas of brighter light, for the choice of genre, and for a naturalism of remote Caravaggesque ancestry; moreover, the figure of the fisherman also differs stylistically and pictorially from that of the still life further down, described with a lenticularism and enhanced by the greater lighting, as if to enshrine a kind of separation between two subjects united in the same work. This peculiarity might recall the collaborations between Giuseppe Recco, father of the aforementioned Elena, and Luca Giordano, a Neapolitan painter who was among the leading exponents of the Baroque period; indeed, the work can be traced back to that strand in which Giuseppe Recco painted pictures with fish, leaving the realization of human figures to Luca Giordano instead: from those examples this work might derive.
- Creator:Alessandro de pesci (Italian)
- Creation Year:18th 18th Century
- Dimensions:Height: 53.94 in (137 cm)Width: 33.08 in (84 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:cm 137 x 84Price: $11,502
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- Gallery Location:Milan, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2639216689622
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