ARAROT0255428
Antique Painting G. Muzzioli Female Figure Oil on Canvas
Female Figure
Oil on canvas. Signed top right. The figure portrayed is that of a commoner who is preparing to return home, opening the latch of a door, after having placed the basket of vegetables on the ground next to her. The work well represents the painting of Giovanni Muzzioli, an artist originally from Modena, but who trained artistically first in Rome and then in Florence, where he spent most of his life. His rich production initially proposed mainly historical subjects, often placed in settings taken from ancient Pompeii, but then he also turned to portraits and finally to landscapes; in the Macchiaioli-style naturalism of his second period, to which this work also belongs, Muzzioli sought a significant perception of atmosphere and light in subjects inspired by the Tuscan rural environment. The work on the first canvas is presented in a frame.