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432 - Antonio GIANLISI Senior (Ponte dell'Olio, 1655 - Crema, 1713…
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Antonio GIANLISI Senior (Ponte dell'Olio, 1655 - Crema, 1713) and Antonio GIANLISI Junior (Rizzolo, 1677 - Cremona, 1727). Cremona, 1727), "Lively interior scene at a set table". Oil on canvas 100 cm x 132 cm. CNES expert: Nicolas JOYEUX. Known thanks to the biography of the Hieronymite monk Desiderio Arisi (Gianluca and Ulisse Bocchi, 2015), Antonio Gianlisi Senior, "pittore di frutti, eccellente particolarmente nell'uve" (Desiderio Arisi, Accademia dei pittori, scultori e architetti cremonesi, altramente detta Galleria di uomini illustri, ms., 1723, c.c. 22-23) and his son, Antonio Gianlisi Junior, are painters from Romagna from Piacenza, whose names were gradually forgotten until the work of Giorgio Fiori and Gianluca and Ulisse Bocchi (2014 and 2015). At the end of the seventeenth century, the two men worked together at Crema, near Cremona in Lombardy. Influenced by Ludovico Cafi, Bocchi's father taught his son to paint still lifes. his son, who also learnt from the Maestro di Palazzo Araldi. before travelling to Bergamo, Lucerna, Brescia, Venice, Treviso, Padua, Vicenza, Verona. The presence of the goldfinch is a signature detail of the intervention of the father, Antonio Gianlisi Senior, which can be seen in his work, including the Trophy of the Clusters of Grapes (Gianluca and Ulisse Bocchi, 2014, p. 31, fig. 25), from the collection of the Marquis Zaccaria di Bordolano, or in four of the six canvases painted for an aristocratic residence in Crema - always in situ - published by Gianluca and Ulisse Bocchi. published by Gianluca and Ulisse Bocchi (2009, p. 233 and p. 234-235, figs. 7 to 11). The bouquet placed on the table - surely in the father's hand - the workmanship of the fabrics, the treatment of the curtains with their the workmanship of the fabrics, the treatment of the curtains with their highly recognisable tassels, the small chest and the sumptuous landscape are clues that confirm the hand of Antonio Gianlisi Junior, common to the Still Life sold at Nagel in Stuttgart (Fine Arts & Antiques, 12 November 2025, lot no. 2318, estimated at €15,000 - €20,000, not sold), as well as the two signed still lifes that were at Hampel in Munich (Gemälde Alte Meister, 28 March 2019, lot no. 1065, estimated at €25,000 - 30 000, not sold; re-sold again at Hampel in Munich on 27 June 2019 (Gemälde Alter Meister Teil I, lot no. 709, estimated at €18,000 - €22,000, not sold). The date of 1705 for these last two paintings, which is very close to our Still Life, places it between approximately 1700 and 1710. BIBLIOGRAPHY Gianluca and Ulisse Bocchi, "L'arte pittorica di Antonio Gianlisi senior detto il Cardellino", Strenna piacentina, 2014, pp. 26-36. Gianluca and Ulisse Bocchi, "La biografia di Antonio Gianlisi Junior scritta da Desiderio Arisi", Strenna piacentina, 2015, pp. 29-40. Gianluca and Ulisse Bocchi, "Una nuova e definitiva prova per il riconoscimento di Antonio Gianlisi Senior detto Il Cardellino", Considerazioni sulla natura morta a Crema tra Sei e Settecento, in Licia Carubelli, Giacomo Desti. Un pittore eclettico nella Crema del Settecento, 2009, pp. 225-256.
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