A. Apert - Cockfight

The painting can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered as important as historical or religious ones.

The painting displays a typically popular taste for genre scenes; the fragment of daily life is depicted without any filter of idealization or interpretation. A realism that meticulously depicts every detail, drawing attention to the quotidian nature of the scene, and unafraid to depict features with a strongly popular character, even unpleasant and caricatural. To help heighten the subject's spontaneity and immediacy, the painter uses a very cursive style, demonstrating a rather modern conception of pictorial technique. What emerges, therefore, is a predominantly miniaturist character, precisely because of the desire to depict the genre scene with a wealth of detail. The light does nothing to impede this process and is managed with a skillful direction that leaves the scene on our right in dim light, gradually increasing in intensity towards the left.

The work was created by A. Apert, an artist whose signature is known only. His paintings display a type of candid realism in the execution of genre scenes and in the pictorial style inspired by Flemish painting between the 17th and 18th centuries.

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