Giacomo Legi

Genoa was at the time an attractive destination for artists since the competition between artists there was less intense than in the leading cultural centres Rome, Florence and Venice, while Genoa was a thriving port city where a large number of potential customers and collectors lived.

[2] Giacomo Legi was a master of the still life and of genre paintings and worked in a style inspired by his teacher Jan Roos.

Roos and Legi played an important role in the development of the still life in Italy towards more complex compositions in line with Baroque taste.

[5] Legi made a career out of the depiction of single fruit, vegetable, game or fish salesmen and women.

Characteristic of his work are the rich brushstrokes, the vivid colors and the use of light, with clear chiaroscuro contrasts.