Master Paintings Part II

Master Paintings Part II

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 412. Still life of various meats, mushrooms, and other fruits and vegetables set on a table with a straw basket, a stack of plates, and other items.

Property of a Private Collector

Tommaso Realfonso

Still life of various meats, mushrooms, and other fruits and vegetables set on a table with a straw basket, a stack of plates, and other items

Lot Closed

January 28, 04:49 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collector

Tommaso Realfonso

Naples 1677 - after 1743

Still life of various meats, mushrooms, and other fruits and vegetables set on a table with a straw basket, a stack of plates, and other itemsv


signed in monogram lower right: TR (in ligature)

oil on canvas

canvas: 29⅞ by 40 in.; 75.8 by 101.5 cm.

framed: 34¾ by 45 in.; 88.3 by 114.3 cm.

This bodegón, or kitchen still life, was painted by Tommaso Realfonso, an artist active in Naples in the first half of the eighteenth century and dedicated exclusively to the representation of still lifes.  Much of his production included floral or fruit still lifes that include a naturalism first developed by Caravaggio in the previous century and revived in Naples and beyond at the time Realfonso was active.