Floral composition with basket and garlands

The work is one of a pair of paintings.
See also Inv. A 266

The two paintings, conceived as companion pieces, arrived in the collection of the Civic Art Gallery in the early years of the twentieth century, perhaps from the rich collection of paintings of Carlo Cordellina. Among his paintings, the famous lawyer had a fair number of genre pieces.

These paintings represent luxuriant floral compositions arranged in large vases or basins, or in capacious wicker baskets.

Applying her paint on the canvas with thick brush strokes, soaked in paint, Elisabetta Marchioni brings together different types of flowers with delicate colours - roses, tulips, carnations and campanulas - filling the whole space of the picture.

Such complex compositions probably belong to a mature phase of the artistic career of the painter from Rovigo, who was active between the seventeenth and the eighteenth century and whose works were particularly appreciated by private patrons of the time.