Oil on canvas painting measuring 72 x 92 cm and 98 x 114 cm with a wonderful contemporary frame, depicting an exterior scene of an inn by the painter Giacomo Francesco Cipper, known as Todeschini (Feldkirch 1644 – Milan 1736). This painting, in good condition, depicts a genre scene populated by nine characters: 4 young people at a table, a bagpiper behind them, two characters brawling with an elderly innkeeper trying to separate them with a broom, and another character in the background on the left looking for something. Probably, considering its size, this painting usually possessed allegorical meanings and decorated the elegant study of some scholar dedicated to philosophical meditations and pervaded by love for poetry, art, and nature. We are faced with a canvas that shows a modern, essential, and well-organized scenic arrangement, characteristic of the best European pictorial tradition. It is worth remembering that the purpose of these compositions of Flemish tradition was to habitually recall to mind one or more ideas derived from proverbs and moralizing witticisms. Adherence to this original artistic lexicon, vivid and of great immediacy, allowed Cipper to obtain important pictorial commissions for the Italian and Milanese nobility: a rich production of genre paintings in which the master manifests evident links with Northern European realism and with Italian naturalism. It was this peculiar artistic sensitivity that allowed Todeschini to develop a personal style particularly suited to the creation of paintings similar to this one, which, in the marked characterization of the figures portrayed, perfectly emancipates itself from the results achieved by Cerruti, known as Pitocchetto, and by Antonio Cifrondi. The painting is a document that exhibits a luministic impulse and passages of brilliant ability; this happens because undoubtedly the best part of our painter's activity concerns portraiture, which he carried out with constant commitment, arriving at a peculiarity of ways that marks a significant phase in the development of the genre, with a lucid anticipation of the executive refinement of the neoclassicists, also due to a breadth of impasto and a perspicuity of definition that are all typical prerogatives of the great Italian painting and of Cipper himself. The paintings and works of art published here are my exclusive property and, consequently, are always available to be viewed in person, by appointment, at my exhibition venues located in Sanremo and Brescia. The work, like all our objects, is sold accompanied by a photographic FIMA certificate of authenticity and lawful provenance; this document identifies the object, adding value to the item. We personally handle and organize the packaging and shipping of works of art with insurance worldwide. Dr. Riccardo Moneghini Art Historian