Bartolomeo Bimbi
Still life with citrons, apples, an artichoke, plums, apricots, apples and other fruit with a bird in a forest landscape
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September 25, 05:46 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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Bartolomeo Bimbi
Settignano 1648–1729 Florence
Still life with citrons, apples, an artichoke, plums, apricots, apples and other fruit with a bird in a forest landscape
oil on canvas
unframed: 76.5 x 100.5 cm.; 30⅛ x 39⅝ in.
framed: 102.1 x 127.5 cm.; 40¼ x 50¼ in.
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Anonymous sale, Florence, Pandolfini, 11 October 2011, lot 170;
Acquired subsequently by the present owner.
This vivid and beautifully rendered still life is a characteristic work by Bartolomeo Bimbi, a Florentine painter active at the court of Cosimo III de’ Medici (1642–1723) and his son Ferdinando de’ Medici (1663–1713). This painting is closely related to a series of outdoor still lifes of various sizes, dating to the final years of the seventeenth century, executed for Ferdinando de’ Medici for his villa at Poggio a Caiano. The closest in size and execution—similarly depicting an assortment of fruit on a rocky outcrop in a landscape with birds—are a pair of canvases preserved in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence.1
The attribution to Bartolomeo Bimbi was endorsed by Alberto Cottino when the work was previously offered for sale in 2011.
1 R. Spinelli, in Bartolomeo Bimbi. Un pittore di piante e animali alla corte dei Medici, S.M. Trkulja and L. Tongiorgi Tomasi (eds), Florence 1998, pp. 134–35, nos 66–67, reproduced in colour.
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