The Return from the Hunt, attributed to Jan Miel (Antwerp, 1599 - Turin, 1663)
Oil on canvas (cm 51 x 66 - Framed 74 x 89 cm)
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The work, both in terms of the scene's cut and the composition's layout, falls fully within the most typical production of the Flemish painter Jan Miel (Antwerp, 1599 - Turin, 1663), a master of the bambocciata genre. Inspired by the genre's founder, Pieter Van Laer, nicknamed Bamboccio, he painted popular and picturesque scenes and popularized the fashion of describing the daily 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 well observe from our canvas: on the bank of a river in an Italian landscape, two men have just returned from hunting and are laying out their prey on the ground, including various birds with a duck, a snipe, and a hunted rabbit. A small black and white dog barks at the killed birds. On the right, there is a kneeling woman, with a red dress and a white apron, who lets two pigeons fly that she had in the covered basket in front of her, cheering up the little boy sitting next to her with his hands raised in the air in surprise.
A tasty and lively attention to realistic detail is always present in his canvases.
The canvas allows us to appreciate the care with which the artist describes the various protagonists, their gestures and clothing, the attention that indicates a vision and a study from life of daily 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 a creation of the painter, an analogous 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 features of the master, which we find in other works with a similar subject, 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)
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