Giovanni Stanchi Active in Rome 1645 - 1672

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

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Description

Giovanni Stanchi
A pair of still lifes with garlands of flowers including tulips, peonies, irises, daffodils, narcissi, hyacinths, morning glory, anemones, roses, poppies and orange blossom
a pair, both oil on canvas

Provenance

Private collection, Spain, from the beginning of the 20th century until sold, anonymous sale ('The Property of a Lady'), London, Sotheby's, 8 July 2004, lot 166, where acquired by the present collector.

Catalogue Note

These still lifes belong to a tradition of flower painting which flourished in Rome during the 1650s. The oval format and the precise brushwork reveal a clear debt to the Flemish artists Daniel Seghers and Jan Brueghel the Elder, whose work was represented in a number of important Roman collections by this time. Although the works of Pier Francesco Cittadini, who though Milanese is believed to have worked in Rome a little before 1650, are often confused with that of the Roman Stanchi Family, the present paintings can be securely attributed to Giovanni Stanchi, by comparison with a pair of documented oval flower paintings now in the Corridoio Vasariano, in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, and in the Palazzo Pitti (see La Natura Morta a Palazzo e in Villa, Le Collezioni dei Medici e dei Lorena, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 2 July - 31 October 1998, pp. 168-9, no. 84, reproduced).