Bernardo Polo

Victor D. Spark (1898-1991), New York, by 1968;

By whom anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby's, 3 June 1988, lot 140 (as Attributed to Fray Juan Sánchez Cotán);

Where acquired by Marco Grassi, New York;

With Silvano Lodi, Campione d'Italia, by 1994 and until at least 2003;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 6 April 2006, lot 58 (as Master of the Lombard Fruit Bowl);

Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Fruits of the Brush: 400 Years of Italian Still Life Painting from the Collection of Silvano Lodi, June - October 1994;

Rome, Musei Capitolini, La natura morta al tempo di Caravaggio, 15 December 1995 - 14 April 1996, no. 60;

Brussels, Galerie du Crédit Communal; Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, L'Art Gourmand, 19 November 1996 - 14 September 1997, no. 6;

Ravensburg, Schloss Achberg, Natura morta italiana, Italienische Stilleben aus vier Jahrhunderten, Sammlung Silvano Lodi, 11 April - 12 October 2003.

R. Torres Martín, La Naturaleza Muerta en la Pintura Española, Barcelona 1971, pp. 49-50, reproduced fig. 8, pl. 10 (as Juan Sánchez Cotán);

L. Salerno, La natura morta italiana, 1560-1805; Still Life Painting in Italy, 1560-1805, Rome 1984, pp. 18-19, reproduced fig. 5.2 (as Master of the Lombard Fruit Bowl);

L. Salerno, Natura morta italiana, Italian Still Life Painting from Three Centuries, The Silvano Lodi Collection, exhibition catalogue, Florence and Munich 1984, p. 35, under cat. nos. 8, 9, reproduced (as Master of the Lombard Fruitbowl);

M. Natale and A. Morandotti, "La natura morta in Lombardia," in La natura morta in Italia, Milan 1989, vol. I, p. 204, reproduced fig. 222 (as Master of the Lombard Fruitbowl);

F. Zeri, La natura morta, Milan 1989, vol. I, pp. 202-204, reproduced fig. 222 (as Master of the Lombard Fruitbowl);

A. Cottino, in La natura morta al tempo di Caravaggio, exhibition catalogue, Naples 1995, p. 192, cat. no. 60, reproduced (as Master of the Lombard Fruit Bowl);

C. Grimm, Stilleben, die italienischen, spanieschen und französischen Meister, Stuttgart 1995, p. 92, reproduced fig. 36 (as Master of the Lombard Fruit Bowl);

W.B. Jordan and P. Cherry, Spanish Still Life from Velázquez to Goya, exhibition catalogue, London 1995, p. 125, reproduced fig. 99 (as Pseudo-Hiepes);

L'Art Gourmand, exhibition catalogue, Brussels 1996, pp. 226-227, cat. no. 6;

W.B. Jordan, in An Eye on Nature: Spanish Still-Life Paintings from Sánchez Cotán to Goya, exhibition catalogue, London 1997, pp. 119, 124, under cat. no. 16, reproduced fig. 15.4 (as Pseudo-Hiepes);

S. Dathe, Natura morta italiana, Italienische Stilleben aus vier Jahrhunderten, Sammlung Silvano Lodi, exhibition catalogue, Ravensburg 2003, p. 38 (as Master of the Lombard Fruit Bowl);

M. Gregori, in La natura morta italiana da Caravaggio al Settecento, exhibition catalogue, M. Gregori (ed.), Florence 2003, p. 52, reproduced fig. 6 (as Spanish Master, either Pseudo Hiepes or Master of the Lombard Fruit Bowl).