Pietro Maurizio Bolckman

Oil on canvas 157 X 167 cm with frame The painting suggests attribution to Pietro Maurizio Bolckman and workshop. The work, particularly rich in detail, depicts a fantasy coastal landscape, with a harbor dock, boats and ships at anchor and docked, as the setting for a bustling scene animated by wealthy buyers, merchants and fishermen busy with their daily activities. The style in which the characters and the delightful genre scenes are delineated perfectly express the style of the master. The figures appear typical of the repertoire of the Dutch painter, where the influence of the Bamboccianti school learned during his stay in Rome is evident. The coastal view represented, denotes the great precision and attention to detail with which the depictions of animals, the beautiful and rustic still lifes displayed by vegetable vendors, the silhouettes of the characters, minutely described and enjoyable in every detail, are rendered. The work is completed by a precious contemporary carved and gilded wooden frame. Pietro Maurizio Bolckman (Gorinchem, 1640 - Turin, 1710), Dutch by origin but mainly active in Italy during the second half of the 17th century, first in Rome, then in Genoa and finally, from 1679, in Turin.