Giovanni Quinsa
Still life with heraldic vase of flowers next to a shallow bowl of fruit and dead bird
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10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Giovanni Quinsa
Active in Naples during the mid-17th Century
Still life with heraldic vase of flowers next to a shallow bowl of fruit and dead bird
oil on canvas
canvas: 28 by 37¼ in.; 71.1 by 94.6 cm.
framed: 34¾ by 43½ in.; 88.2 by 110.4 cm.
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The present still life shares much in common with the Neapolitan tradition of still life painting, including the arrangement of the fruit, flowers, and bird, and the ledge on which the objects are presented.
1. Reproduced in A. Tecce, in La natura morta in Italia, ed. F. Zeri, Milan 1989, vol. II, p. 886, figs. 1061 and 1062.