Two kitchen scenes: A hunter and a Woman plucking a rooster
Pair of canvases
Frame: late XNUMXth century Italian frame
109x82 inch
Original paintings
The hunter captured thrushes, birds caught on foot, and he tied a hare by the legs to a stick like poachers did. He is holding a great bustard, which has become very rare since the
XNUMXth century, when the marshes were drained and the taste is close to goose. On the other hand, the female character plucks domestic poultry.
These kitchen subjects, created in the previous century by Pieter Aertsen and Joachim Bueckelaer, had great success in Italy, especially in Genoa and in Lombardy a little later (Cipper, Ceruti...).
In the first part of the XNUMXth century, several Nordic painters stayed in Genoa, including Jan Roos, a pupil of Snyders, specializing in “flowers, fruits and animals”. His brother-in-law, Giacomo Legi synthesizes
several influences: rustic Caravaggism which gives a real human presence to the figures, the Nordic influence, transcended by a frank touch and large geometric areas of white or red colors. All with a very tight frame. Our painting could be seen as the realistic response to Bernardo Strozzi's famous "Cooker" (circa 1625, Genoa, Palazzo Rosso, and another version in Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland).
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