Giacomo Francesco Cipper

The field of work recorded is Baroque painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are still life. Places of work recorded in the authority are Milan. Works named in the authority record are Young Beggar. Work by Giacomo Francesco Cipper is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Städel Museum, Museo del Prado, Auckland Art Gallery and Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Brieuc.

Of Austrian origin, Cipper was working in Milan in the first half of the 18th century. A highly productive painter of landscapes in the caravaggesca manner, his first attributed work is dated 1700; he operated in Lombardy and in the Veneto (see for instance his Hunters and greengrocers, at the Gallery Campori, Modena; and his Family of peasants at Venice in the Galleries of the Academy). Subsequently, the artist, perhaps under the influence of the Giacomo Ceruti (some of whose works were once attributed to him), moved away from the scrupulous observation of detail, replacing it with a less representational vision, one more sensitive to the play of light. His last known work is Self-portrait (1736), now at Hampton Court Palace.

The authorities additionally record the headings Il Todeschini, Jakob Franz Zipper, Giacomo Francesco Cipri, Giacomo Francesco Cepper and Todeschini Cipper.