Bouquet Of Flowers (surroundings) By Margherita Caffi (1648 - 1710)

Oil on pine panel Dim without frame 60/52 Dim with frame 68/59 Italian school Circle of Margherita Caffi Margherita Caffi (Milan, 1648 - Milan, September 20, 1710), is an Italian baroque painter of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, who specialized in painting still lifes, flowers and fruits. Our painting represents a chiaroscuro in the manner of Caravaggio who sublimated this art. Magherita Caffi borrowed this style in which she excels, in fact the light emerges from the darkness and floods the bouquet, the flowers as in a trompe l'oeil come out of the painting and give the impression of being able to be taken. Strange technique and surprising experience, on this painting, the panel was gilded with gold leaf before being painted. The only explanation to my taste would be that the gold would give transparency to the painting and make it vibrate thus offering a more pronounced realism.