LOT 109
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Lot 109
LUIGI BECHI (Italian 1830-1919)
The Happy Family
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
26 inches x 34 inches (66 cm x 86.3 cm)
Estimate:
$10,000 - 15,000
€ 7,400 - 11,100
Italian genre painter Luigi Bechi was born in Florence in 1830 and studied under Giuseppe Bezzuoli, one of the leading proponents of Romanticism in Italy. Bechi achieved critical and commercial success throughout his career with his depictions of jovial peasant children and families engaged in simple daily tasks and he even won a medal at the Florence exhibition of 1879. The Happy Family is a classic example of Bechi’s direct style of genre painting. Here, a family is gathered near the hearth of the home, the mother, never letting her hands idle, works with yarn. The family dog sits dutifully at her feet while she watches her father and her child (grandfather and grandchild) interacting before her. The child appears to be holding a scrap of food to reward the dog, albeit with some slight coaxing from grandfather. The modest dwelling of this peasant family is quite obviously their home, as Bechi has artfully constructed a warm and engaging familial scene.
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