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The attribution of this picture to Cipper, as suggested by Alberto Rizzi, is undisputed. It is typical of the painter both as regards composition and technique as well as psychological emphases. The Drinker and The Smoker in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan are very similar; our present knowledge unfortunately does not permit an exact dating.

Artist Giacomo Francesco Cipper

Technique oil, canvas

Dimensions 75 x 60 cm

Inventory number NG S 982, National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana

Collection 1600–1700

Restored: 1960, ZSV, Ljubljana.
Provenance: LBG, Graz, No. 22, until 1903; transferred 1903 to the spa at Rogaška Slatina; 1932, Narodna galerija, Ljubljana, old Inv. No. 448 (second half 17C).
Exhibitions: 1960, Ljubljana, No. 41; 1979, Ljubljana, No. 4; 1983, Ljubljana, No. 38; 1985, Belgrade, No. 24.
Lit.: Cevc 1960, p. 25, Cat. No. 41 (Antonio Cifrondi); Rizzi 1970, p. 234; Rizzi 1972, p. 135, No. 41; Šerbelj 1979, p. 13, Cat. No. 4, Fig. 1; Zeri [& Rozman] 1983, pp. 123–124, Cat. No. 38, Fig. IV and 38.