Old Painting From The Dutch School Of The Seventeenth Century

Oil on canvas 157 X 167 cm with frame The painting suggests attribution to Pietro Maurizio Bolckman and the studio. The work, particularly rich in detail, depicts a fantastic coastal landscape, with a harbor quay, boats and ships at anchor and moored, like the scene of a teeming scene brought to life by wealthy buyers, merchants and fishermen busy with their lives. daily activities. The style with which the characters are drawn and the tasty genre scenes perfectly express the style of the master. The figures appear typical of the repertoire of the Dutch painter, where the influence of the Bamboccianti school learned during his stay in Rome is evident; The coastal glimpse depicted denotes the great precision and richness of detail with which the representations of animals, the beautiful and rustic still lifes exhibited by the vegetable vendors, the silhouettes of the figures, meticulously described and pleasing to the smallest detail, are returned. The work is completed by a precious contemporary frame in carved and gilded wood Pietro Maurizio Bolckman (Gorinchem, 1640 - Turin, 1710), Dutch in origin but active mainly in Italy during the second half of the 17th century, first in Rome , then in Genoa and finally, from 1679, in Turin.