Pietro Ligari (Ardenno 1686 - Sondrio 1752)

Portrait of a middle-aged man of the lower middle class or working class, as suggested by the simply knotted tie, the jacket with large buttons, and the informally styled hair. With sober courtesy, the figure turns to the viewer, showing in his right hand an object difficult for us to identify today, but certainly well recognizable by his contemporaries and characteristic of his profession. The work can be dated to the third or fourth decade of the eighteenth century. Oil on original canvas of cm. 73x54, with relining and a new frame applied in the second half of the twentieth century; on the same occasion, small restorations were carried out in fringe areas, for no more than 2 percent of the painted surface. The work is therefore in very good conservation conditions.