LOT DETAILS

Materials:

a pair

Size Notes:

47???? x 80??????? in. (121.3 x 205.4 cm.)

Description:

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Literature:

J. Spike, Italian Still Life Paintings From Three Centuries, exhibition catalogue, Florence and New York, 1983, p. 129, fig. 16 (only the first illustrated), as 'Abraham Brueghel and Guillaume Courtois?'. F. Porzio, La natura morta in Italia, Milan, 1989, II, pp. 789 and 792-93, figs. 932-933, as 'Abraham Brueghel and Guillaume Courtois'. G. Bocchi and U. Bocchi eds., Pittori di natura morta a Roma. Artisti stranieri 1630-1750, Viadana, 2005, I, pp. 125, 130 and 147, fig. AB:13 (only the first illustrated), note 21, as 'Abraham Brueghel and Guillaume Courtois'. L. Trezzani, 'La natura morta romana nelle foto di Federico Zeri', La natura morta di Federico Zeri, Bologna, 2015, pp. 189 and 193, note 15.

Provenance:

Fra' Marc'Antonio Zondadari, Grand Master of the Order of Malta (1658-1722), Palazzo Carniero, Valletta, by circa 1721. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 July 1982, lot 14, as with the putti as 'possibly the work of Guillaume Courtois'. Anonymous sale; Finarte, Milan, 16 April 1985, lots 81 and 82. Private colletion, Milan, by 1989.