Margherita Caffi

Margherita Caffi
Born	Margherita Volo 1650 (1650) Milan, Italy
Died	1710 (aged 59–60) Milan, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Painting
Movement	Still Life
Spouse	Ludivico Caffi

Margherita Caffi (Milan 1650/51 - 1710) from Dr. Jeffrey Lant Collection

Margherita Caffi (1650 – 20 September 1710) was an Italian painter of still lifes of flowers and fruit. She was born Margherita Volo, in Milan to Francesco Volo (a still-life painter himself) and his wife, Veronica. In 1668, she married Ludivico Caffi (also a still-life painter) in Cremona. She settled in Piacenza in 1670. She is known to have had at least four children. She died in Milan at the age of sixty.[1]

There are a number of unsigned paintings depicting "still lives with flowers", previously attributed to Francesco Guardi, known as Pseudo-Guradi Maestro di Fiori Guardeschi, but now postulated as likely the work of either Francesco Duramano, Carlo Henrici, Elisabetta Marchioni, and/or Margherita.[2][3][4]

Still-Life with a Vase of Flowers by Margherita Caffi, private collection

References

1. Gaze, Delia (1997). Dictionary of Women Artists: Artists, J-Z. Taylor & Francis. pp. 339–340.
2. Wikiart org website
3. [https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4697215 Christies lot 4697215.
4. Catalogo Beni Culturali, Still-life with Flowers at Galleria Rizzi, Sestri Levante near Genoa.

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 208.