Oil on canvas.
The painting refers in its pictorial methods and subject to the production of Giacomo Francesco Cipper known as Todeschini, an artist of Austrian origins who established himself in Milan.
He was a specialist in market scenes, open-air concerts, card players, scenes of humble daily life created with laughing caricatures and a search for comic effect.
As in this work, which portrays a commoner who is biting into a chicken leg: despite the poverty that shines through his clothes, the man appears cheerful and cheerful, representing not desolation but the vitality and fun of daily life, even in poverty.
The characters in Cipper, although humble, are characterized by an impertinent nature, manifested by their gaze fixed on the spectator, which attracts his attention.
The canvas was applied to cardboard at the end of the 19th century, subjected to restoration and inserted in a golden tablet frame.
Currently needs cleaning.
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