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Lot 388
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Abraham Brueghel Antwerp 1631 - 1697 Naples

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60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Abraham Brueghel
  • Still Life of Fruit in a Landscape with the Fragment of a Bas-Relief
  • oil on canvas

Literature

L. Salerno, Still Life Painting in Italy, Rome 1984, pp. 192-3, no. 47.4, reproduced;
L. Salerno, Nuovi Studi su La Natura Morta Italiana, Rome 1989, p. 84.

Catalogue Note

The combination of fruit and/or flowers in a landscape with a bas-relief, based on a motif from the Column of Trajan, can be found in other works by Abraham Brueghel (see L. Salerno, op. cit., 1989, p. 86, figure 77 and G. and U. Bocchi, Pittori di Natura Morta a Roma, Artisti Stranieri 1630-1750, Viadana 2004, p. 133, figure AB.16).