Follower of Jacopo Ligozzi

A memento mori of a decapitated head on a book

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Follower of Jacopo Ligozzi
A memento mori of a decapitated head on a book
inscribed 'QUÆ PRIUS ANIMA MEA TANGERE NOLEBAT / NUNC CIBI MEI SUNT. Job: C: VI. V: 7.' (lower center, on the cartellino)
oil on canvas
14 ½ x 11 7/8 in. (36.8 x 30.2 cm.), with painted additions of approximately 1 ¾ in. along the top edge and 1 in. along the left, right and bottom edges

Lot Essay

This painting reproduces, with changes, a painting by Ligozzi on the reverse of a portrait of a young boy dated 1604 in the collection of Lord Aberconway, Bodnant, Wales (see L. Salerno, La Natura Morta Italiana, Rome, 1984, p. 30, fig. 9.2).

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