Felice Boselli (Piacenza 1650 – Parma 1732) – Shepherd with flock and game.

Felice Boselli (Piacenza 1650 – Parma 1732) – Shepherd with flock and game.

155 x 112 cm (without frame) – 170 x 126 cm (with frame).

Oil on canvas, in a wooden frame lacquered in faux marble.

Felice Boselli is among the leading Emilian painters of still life and animal painting between the 17th and 18th centuries. Active primarily in Parma, where he worked for the Farnese court and for important noble commissions, he developed a dense and naturalistic pictorial language, heir to the Lombard and Emilian traditions of the genre.

The artist's mature work is characterized by crowded compositions in which farmyard animals, game, and rustic figures combine in scenes with strong textural impact, executed with thick brushstrokes and a warm, earthy palette. The rooster perched on the fence, rendered with meticulous attention to its plumage, and the herd of sheep and goats gathered around the young shepherd are typical elements of Boselli's animalier repertoire of the early 18th century.

The composition, divided into two registers with the poultry at the top and the grazing flock at the bottom, near the figure of the shepherd, finds close stylistic comparisons with autograph works such as "Game with Children Playing with a Dog" (Parma, Galleria Nazionale) and the pair "Old Man and Girl with Game" (Marchese Meli Lupi di Soragna Tarasconi Collection), both datable to 1708-1710, the period to which the present painting can also be attributed.

Condition report: Lined canvas. Good condition of the pictorial surface, there are signs of aging and wear.

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