An Italian Collecting Journey - Chapter II

Nicola Casissa

Still life of watermelons, pomegranates, bunches of grapes and other fruit in a landscape

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Auction Closed

March 25, 04:59 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Nicola Casissa

active Naples, d. 1731

Still life of watermelons, pomegranates, bunches of grapes and other fruit in a landscape

signed lower left: Casissaf.

oil on canvas

unframed: 112.6 x 143.1 cm.; 44⅜ x 56⅜ in.

framed: 125.8 x 157 cm.; 49½ x 61⅞ in.

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Imperiali di Francavilla Collection, Naples;

Acquired subsequently by the present owner.

A. della Ragione, La natura morta napoletana del Settecento, Naples 2010, p. 12 and 102, reproduced in colour pl. 26.

A copy of this composition of comparable dimensions by Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo (1629– 1693) was offered for sale at Sotheby's, New York, 21 January 1982, lot 72.¹

¹ https://rkd.nl/imageslite/1703376

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