Todeschini

Pair of antique paintings – oil on canvas Interior scenes – Workshop of GIACOMO FRANCESCO CIPPER known as TODESCHINI Dimensions 89 X 114 cm Giacomo Francesco Cipper, known as Todeschini (Feldkirch, 15 July 1664 – Milan, 17 October 1736) was an Austrian painter, active in Italy in the first half of the 18th century. His biographical data is unknown: he was perhaps originally from Tyrol and was active in northern Italy in the first half of the 18th century, especially in the Brescia and Bergamo areas. Some of his numerous works, signed Cipper, Zipper or Cipri accompanied by the German appellative, are dated between 1705 (Gypsy scene from the Geri Collection in Milan) and 1736 (Painter in his studio, Hampton Court). Genre painter, he adhered to Nordic culture and looked with interest at the works of Pietro Bellotto. Todeschini's fertile activity fits, with a tone of easy amusement, into the varied current of painting with popular subjects that had particular success in Lombardy and central Europe, reaching its most candid and strongest expression in Pitocchetto.