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Property from an Important Texas Collection
LUCA FORTE (NAPLES C.1615-BEFORE 1670)
A planter with grape vines, watermelon, figs, pomegranate, and gourds with insects and a bird in a landscape
Details
LUCA FORTE (NAPLES C.1615-BEFORE 1670)
A planter with grape vines, watermelon, figs, pomegranate, and gourds with insects and a bird in a landscape
signed with initials 'L. F.' (on the watermelon, lower right)
oil on copper
12 ¼ x 10 5⁄8 in. (31.1 x 26.9 cm.)
A planter with grape vines, watermelon, figs, pomegranate, and gourds with insects and a bird in a landscape
signed with initials 'L. F.' (on the watermelon, lower right)
oil on copper
12 ¼ x 10 5⁄8 in. (31.1 x 26.9 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 20 June 1989, lot 128.
Private collection, Holland.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, by November 1989, where acquired by the present owner.
Private collection, Holland.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, by November 1989, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
G. De Vito, 'Un diverso avvio per il primo tempo della natura morta a Napoli', Ricerche sul '600 napoletano: Saggi e documenti per La Storia dell'Arte, 1990, p. 122, fig. 31, pl. VI.
N. Spinosa, Pittura del Seicento a Napoli: Da Mattia Preti a Luca Giordano, Natura in Posa, Naples, 2011, p. 261, under no. 279.
N. Spinosa, Pittura del Seicento a Napoli: Da Mattia Preti a Luca Giordano, Natura in Posa, Naples, 2011, p. 261, under no. 279.
Exhibited
New York, Newhouse Galleries, An Exhibition of European Paintings from the 16th to the 19th Century, 3 October - 3 November 1989, no. 4.
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