MASTELLETTA
(b. 1575, Bologna, d. 1655, Bologna)

Fête by a Riverbank

c. 1611
Oil on canvas, 99 x 120 cm
Private collection

Mastelletta's grand, open-air fêtes champêtres, combining landscape and slender, silhouette-like figures, depicted through a simplified, expressionistic design, lie at the root of his fame and originality.