Oil on canvas Still life with plate of apples on carpet by Francesco Noletti, 17th century

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Oil painting on canvas from the workshop of the great Master Francesco Noletti, also known as Francesco Fieravino called the Maltese (Malta circa 1611 - Rome 1654). The painting on offer at auction is typical of Maltese's mid-century (17th century) painting. Even the pictorial material is reminiscent of his way of painting and mixing colours, making carpets come out with the photographic fidelity of which he was a great master in the Age of Enlightenment. Always wrongly identified with Francesco Fieravino, the biography and catalogue of Francesco Noletti, otherwise known as the Maltese, is due to Keith Sciberras. The Maltese artist worked mainly in Rome, producing elegant still lifes. The Maltese enjoyed extraordinary success with the collectors of the time, thanks to his excellent creativity and the invention of singular posed natures in which oriental carpets, curtains, armour and fruit were assembled with a taste perfectly in keeping with the Baroque ideal. His exuberant and opulent style profoundly influenced countless artists, such as Giovanni Domenico Valentini, Carlo Manieri and Antonio Tibaldi. Returning to our work, the excellent quality and elegance attest not only to a certain authorship in the workshop, but also to Noletti's talent during his maturity, in analogy with the still lifes in the Molinari Pradelli collection in Bologna and the Musée Fesch in Ajaccio (cf. Sciberras 2005, fig. 12 and 15), both dating from 1650. The state of preservation of the work is good, a reversible pictorial restoration. Small paint loss and plastering restored with pictorial restoration. Painted work. The work is set in an important contemporary wooden frame, carved and gilded. Canvas measurements: 36.5 X 48.5 cm.

ID: 17496-1648716617-36320