Working in eighteenth-century Bologna, Antonio Beccadelli developed genre painting informed by Giuseppe Maria Crespi's naturalism and Venetian, Flemish and Dutch models. Exchanges between figures animate his scenes of popular life. Alongside his painting, he also worked as an art dealer and restorer.
At Palazzo Tozzoni in Imola, Fanciulla povera, an oil painting on canvas dated between 1740 and 1760, belongs to a group demonstrating this interest in humble figures. Danza campestre, at the Museo Civico in Modena, concentrates several actions within one scene: a young woman plays a tambourine, a peasant pours wine into a bowl held by a child, and an old woman watches disapprovingly. Rustic entertainment is thus combined with a contrast between the participants' human reactions.
This profile brings together identity references for Antonio Beccadelli and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Documented auction references
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Piguet
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Works recorded at auction
Piguet · Lot 1223
Original title: Berger au repos, bergères et troupeau
Oil on canvas
Full catalogue description and documentary notes
Catalogue description — original language Antonio Beccadelli (1718-1803) , Berger au repos, bergères et troupeau , huile sur toile, 77x61,5 cm Nous remercions la Dr. Milena Naldi qui a attribué notre tableau à Antonio Beccadelli, sur la base de photographies digitales. Cette attribution est soutenue notamment par la comparaison entre la bergère de l'extrême droite de la composition avec l'enfant qui occupe la même position dans la Nature morte aux gibier, fruits, et fleurs, avec deux fillettes et un chien (illustrée ci-contre, conservée à Parme, Galleria Nazionale, inv. n° 2105), dans laquelle les parties de nature morte sont de la main de Candido Vitali (1680-1753). Bibliographie pour comparaison: A. Mazza, Antonio Beccadelli, pittore "negoziante di quadri". Scena di convito , éd. Cassa di Risparmio, Cesena, 2011, p. 25, fig. 16 Historique: vente Christie's, Londres, 13 décembre 2002, n° 241
Original title: Berger au repos, bergères et troupeau
Oil on canvas
Full catalogue description and documentary notes
Catalogue description — original language Antonio Beccadelli (1718-1803) , Berger au repos, bergères et troupeau , huile sur toile, 77x61,5 cm Nous remercions la Dr. Milena Naldi qui a attribué notre tableau à Antonio Beccadelli, sur la base de photographies digitales. Cette attribution est soutenue notamment par la comparaison entre la bergère de l'extrême droite de la composition avec l'enfant qui occupe la même position dans la Nature morte aux gibier, fruits, et fleurs, avec deux fillettes et un chien (illustrée ci-contre, conservée à Parme, Galleria Nazionale, inv. n° 2105), dans laquelle les parties de nature morte sont de la main de Candido Vitali (1680-1753). Bibliographie pour comparaison: A. Mazza, Antonio Beccadelli, pittore "negoziante di quadri". Scena di convito , éd. Cassa di Risparmio, Cesena, 2011, p. 25, fig. 16 Historique: vente Christie's, Londres, 13 décembre 2002, n° 241
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