Lot Essay
A copy possibly by the artist's studio in which the right half of the composition follows the present painting was sold at Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1986, lot 319, as 'Circle of Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo', and was subsequently with Lampronti in Rome.
The monkey recurs in a picture in a private collection, Reggio Emilia, published by Ludovica Trezzani in La natura morta in Italia, ed. F. Porzio, Milan, 1989, II, p.781, fig.918 (colour), as the work of Michelangelo di Campidoglio
The monkey recurs in a picture in a private collection, Reggio Emilia, published by Ludovica Trezzani in La natura morta in Italia, ed. F. Porzio, Milan, 1989, II, p.781, fig.918 (colour), as the work of Michelangelo di Campidoglio