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The Return of the Prodigal Son, Italian school of the 18th - 19th centuries, large oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Canvas measurements: 170 x 125 cm. Framed measurements: 183 x 141 cm

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The Return of the Prodigal Son, Italian school of the 18th - 19th centuries, large oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Canvas measurements: 170 x 125 cm. Framed measurements: 183 x 141 cm

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JOHN MICHELE GRANERI The dissipation of the prodigal son Oil on canvas, 49.5x84 cm The painting depicts a theme that achieved great success in Piedmont in the 18th century: that of the vicissitudes of the Prodigal Son. The Gospel story, exemplary on a moral level, also lent itself very well to cues for genre painters. The canvas are the work of one of the most important painters in the field, Giovanni Michele Graneri. The artist was among the most significant representatives of genre and bambocciata painting, which flourished in Piedmont during the 18th century. He was formed in the wake of the great bambocciante painter Pietro Domenico Ollivero but, from his early works, he appears clearly distinguishable, with a marked personal style, less refined and less prone to meditation, rich in a realism with a popular feel, with a taste for the anecdotal, the minute episode the picaresque accents. His lively, ironic, icastic painting met the taste of court personalities, private bourgeois and nobles, for whom he painted a large number of pictures, now partly dispersed on the market. In this case Graneri, as Ollivero had already done makes a cast, skilfully and with precise variations, from engravings, part of a series of 5 sheets representing the parable of the prodigal son with subjects of invention by Cornelis De Wael. (A, Cifani, F. Monetti, The Pleasures and Graces. Collecting, genre and landscape painting between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Piedmont, Turin 1993, tome one and two; A.Cifani, F. Monetti, Giovanni Michele Graneri. in : The Secret Kingdom. Sardinia-Piedmont: a postcolonial vision, Nuoro 2020, pp. 38-41)