MAESTRO DEL VASO A GROTTESCHE | STILL LIFE WITH A BASKET OF FLOWERS ON A RAISED LEDGE, AND ONE LARGE AND ONE SMALLER VASE OF FLOWERS ON A LOWER LEDGE
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July 29, 12:38 PM GMT
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MAESTRO DEL VASO A GROTTESCHE
active in Italy in the early 17th Century
STILL LIFE WITH A BASKET OF FLOWERS ON A RAISED LEDGE, AND ONE LARGE AND ONE SMALLER VASE OF FLOWERS ON A LOWER LEDGE
oil on canvas
unframed: 92 x 128 cm.; 36¼ x 50⅜ in.
framed: 110.5 x 147 cm.; 43⅜ x 57⅞ in.
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Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 17 November 2018, lot 1529.
The nomenclature 'Maestro del vaso a grottesche' refers to a group of artists who were painting still lifes in grotesque vases at the beginning of the 17th century in Italy.1
1 For a discussion of this group of artists see A. Vecca, 'I Maestri del vaso a grottesche', in La natura morta italiana da Caravaggio al Settecento, exh. cat., Florence 2003, pp. 110–13.