Pittore fiorentino

oil painting on oval canvas, framed, some defects

74x57 cm

The following technical sheet of the work was created by Professor Sandro Bellesi as part of the inventory of the paintings of the Fattoria Franceschini. Typical of Florentine portraiture of the mid-eighteenth century, the painting, probably depicting a female character from the Pitti House, presents a noblewoman with more or less elegant "house" clothes, described up to the height of the bust within indefinite spaces. The neutral and almost uniform drafting of the brown or dark gray backgrounds accentuates, according to a recurring procedure in Tuscan portraiture starting from the late sixteenth century, the "focus" in the foreground of the figure, almost posed for a photographic image. Sensitive to the language and style of Florentine painters or painters active in Florence in the second quarter of the eighteenth century such as Giovanni Gaetano Gabbiani and Giulio Pignatti, the work is part of a series of ovals with feminine effigies surrounded by identical frames the gilded wood grooved in the central part and decorated at the ends, referable to different masters at the moment not identified.