GiovanniDomenico Ferretti "Card players"
GIOVANNI DOMENICO FERRETTI (Florence, 1692-1768) Card players oil on canvas, 42x31cm provenance: Italian antiques market set in a rustic setting, three characters in peasant clothes playing cards around a makeshift support element, while in the background another character covertly peeks. Genre scene typical of the early eighteenth century, a type dear to Ferretti and in great demand by the bourgeois patrons of the time. Canvases with similar subjects and attributable to the Florentine painter are kept in the eighteenth century Venetian museum Ca 'Rezzonico in Venice. with antique frame in lacquered wood and mecca gilding