Felice Ficherelli Riposo

(San Gimignano, 1603 - Firenze, 1660)

The painting is accompanied by an expertise by Prof. Sandro Bellesi.

The painting is an interesting addition to Felice Ficherelli's autograph corpus and has been attributed by Sandro Bellesi to the painter's youthful phase, between the 1920s and 1930s. A close link with the example of Florentine artists active in the first decades of the century, from his master Jacopo Empoli to Matteo Rosselli, can be recognised in the work. The painting already shows the qualities that were to become the most marked characteristics of his production: full-bodied and soft colouring, skill in the use of sfumato, melancholic languidness of expression. Characters that highlight the attention with which Ficherelli looked to the style of Cesare Dandini and the sensuality of Francesco Furini's painting.