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623 - JAN MIEL or Jan van Bike Miel, known as ‘Il Cavaliere Gioo’ …
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Estimate €2,500 - €4,500
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JAN MIEL or Jan van Bike Miel, known as ‘Il Cavaliere Gioo’ (Beveren 1599–Turin, 1664) Italian Baroque School, 17th century – Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right-hand corner. Dimensions: 65 x 50 cm; 98 x 82 cm with frame. Formerly part of an important private collection. A genre scene depicting figures gathered against a rural architectural backdrop, enlivened by figures conversing, riding horses and resting in the foreground. The composition combines landscape, architecture and genre scenes with warm lighting and well-constructed spatial depth. Its subject matter and treatment link it to the Italian tradition of the 17th century. Documented in Rome from at least 1633, it belonged to the Bamboccianti or Bambochantes school, which specialised in creating small genre scenes reflecting street life in Rome and its surroundings. A follower in this respect of the Dutch painter Pieter van Laer—some of whose paintings he copied—he was nevertheless, alongside Michelangelo Cerquozzi, instrumental in the evolution of the genre, emphasising narrative development at the expense of landscape, as he primarily painted figures. He joined the Academy of St Luke in Rome and, towards the end of his career, devoted himself to religious painting, leaving several works in Roman churches and taking part in the decoration of the Quirinal Palace, where in 1656 he painted the fresco of the Crossing of the Red Sea. In 1658 he moved to Turin, where he worked for the Duke of Savoy and died in that city.
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About the sale GRAND SUMMER AUCTION OF HAUTE ÉPOQUE AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
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Auction time 06/29/2026 at 4:00 AM
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