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Giovan Battista Ruoppolo (Napoli, 1629 – 1693)

Cherries, lemons and fish on a plane

oil on canvas
cm 72x96

within an important golden frame

In the painting, the strong light-shadow contrast and the firm vision of the objects suggest a dating to the years 1660/1670, at the end of the painter's youthful career, still influenced by the naturalistic shots of Luca Forte and by the Caravaggio-esque suggestions of the Roman environment.

Exhibitions: Italian still life Naples, Palazzo Reale, 1 October - 1 November 1964: Zurich Kunsthaus Museum, Rotterdam Bojmans Museum
Seventeenth-century Civilizations Naples, Capodimonte Museum and Pignatelli Museum, October 1984 - April 1985

Bibliography: Italian still life - Naples, 1964, Plate 43 a, page. 56, Exhibition catalog page 64
Aspects of ancient Italian still life Bergamo 1968, Exhibition catalog page 44
Raffaello Causa Seventeenth-century painting in Naples from Naturalism to Baroque. II The still life a Naples in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Naples 1972 pag. 1017-1045 and fig 75
Civilization of the Seventeenth Century in Naples - Naples, 1984 pag. 434, Exhibition catalog p.434

€ 40.000,00 / 45.000,00
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Objects of art, Gouaches from the Carlo Knight Collection, important old master paintings and 19th century paintings
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Objects of art, Gouaches from the Carlo Knight Collection, important old master paintings and 19th century paintings

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