Jan Miel (Anversa, 1599 - Torino, 1663)

Attributable to Jan Miel (Antwerp, 1599 - Turin, 1663) The Return from the Hunt Oil on canvas (51 x 66 cm - Framed 74 x 89 cm) Complete details (link) The work, both in terms of the scene's composition and its layout, fully falls within the most typical production of the Flemish painter Jan Miel (Antwerp, 1599 - Turin, 1663), a master of the 'bambocciata' genre who, inspired by the genre's founder, Pieter Van Laer, known as Bamboccio, painted popular and picturesque scenes and spread the fashion of depicting the everyday life of the Eternal City. A characteristic of this current of painters was precisely to portray popular scenes of common life in papal Rome, rejecting the canons and official subjects of the time, as we can clearly observe from our canvas: on the bank of a river in an Italian landscape, two men have just returned from the hunt and are arranging the spoils on the ground, including various birds with a duck, a snipe, and hunted rabbit. A small black and white dog barks at the birds uccisi. On the right there is a kneeling woman, with a red dress and a white apron, who lets fly two pigeons that she had in the covered basket in front of her, cheering up the little boy sitting next to her with his hands stretched in the air as a sign of surprise. There is always a tasteful and lively attention to realistic detail in his paintings. The canvas allows us to appreciate the care with which the artist describes the different protagonists, their gestures and clothes, the attention that indicates a vision and a study from life of everyday life, read and interpreted without literary filters but with marked naturalism, sincere and passionate. 'The Return from the Hunt', the subject of study here, is certainly an idea of the painter, a similar version of which, but slightly larger than ours, appeared on the antique market (Hampel, Munich, 25.3.2021, URL: https://www.hampel-auctions.com/a/archive-catalogue-detail.html?la=it&a=126&s=741&id=564.... We can also identify typical characteristics of the master, which we find in other works with similar subjects, such as the stone arch covered with uncultivated grass (https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/el-barbero-del-lugar/19b29c46-4b06-4122-9655-377b73f65bd5) or the typical dog that barks in the foreground at the bystanders (https://research.rkd.nl/en/detail/https%3A%2f%2fdata.rkd.nl%2fimages%2f195412) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The work is completed by a pleasant gilded frame and is sold with a certificate of authenticity and guarantee. We handle and organize the transport of purchased works, both for Italy and abroad, through professional and insured carriers. It is also possible to see the painting in the gallery in Riva del Garda, we will be happy to welcome you to show you our collection of works. Contact us, without obligation, for any further information. Also follow us on: INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/galleriacastelbarco/?hl=it FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/galleriacastelbarco/