Agostino Verrocchi - Still Life with Grapes, Honeydew Melon, Peaches, Plums, Tree Strawberries, and Strawberries
Agostino Verrocchi
Still Life with Grapes, Honeydew Melon, Peaches, Plums, Tree Strawberries, and Strawberries
Oil on canvas (relined). 72.5 x 95 cm.
We know very little about the life of Agostino Verrocchi. Written sources show that he was resident in Rome from 1619 to 1636. Nevertheless, Verrocchi is one of the most important and earliest still life painters in Italy. The present work, which has been published many times, is characteristic of this artist, to whom only a few works can be attributed. In a dense composition, Verrocchi presents numerous different fruits against a dark background. The fruits are arranged on several levels one above the other, both in baskets and standing freely on the slightly archaic looking table, seen face on. Franco Paliaga writes of the painting in the catalogue of the Munich and Florentine exhibition of 2003: "Our painting shows a masterful control of light, which owes much to the influence of Caravaggio, and thus allows the work to be dated to Verrocchi's mature period [...]". (Exhibition catalogue "Stille Welt", op. cit., p. 170).
Provenance
Formerly Renzo Moroni, Rome.
Literature
Arisi, Ferdinando: Felice Boselli. Pittore di natura morta, Rome 1973, illus. 97. - Salerno, Luigi: La Natura Morta italiana 1560-1805, Rome 1984, p. 102, illus. 25.1. - Cottino, Alberto, in: Exhib. cat. „L'anima e le cose. La natura morta nell'Italia pontificia nel XVII e XVIII secolo, Fano 2001, Modena 2001, p. 61, illus. 61. - Paliaga, Franco, in: Exhib. cat. „Stille Welt. Italienische Stillleben. Arcimboldo, Caravaggio, Strozzi …“, Munich 2002/03, ed. by Mina Gregori & Johann Georg Prinz von Hohenzollern, Mailand 2002, p. 170, with illus. - Cottino, Alberto: L'Incantesimo dei sensi. Una collezione di nature morte del Seicento per il Museo Accorsi, Turin 2005, p. 56-57, 103-104, cat. no. 8, illus. p. 57.
Exhibitions
Stille Welt. Italienische Stillleben. Arcimboldo, Caravaggio, Strozzi …, Munich Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 6.12.2002-23.2.2003 & Florence, Palazzo Strozzi. 26.6.-12.10.2003. - L'incantesimo dei sensi: una collezione di nature morte del Seicento per il Museo Accorsi, Turin, Fondazione Accorsi , 30.11. 2005 -1.5.2006, no. 8.
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Agostino Verrocchi
Still Life with Grapes, Honeydew Melon, Peaches, Plums, Tree Strawberries, and Strawberries
Oil on canvas (relined). 72.5 x 95 cm.
We know very little about the life of Agostino Verrocchi. Written sources show that he was resident in Rome from 1619 to 1636. Nevertheless, Verrocchi is one of the most important and earliest still life painters in Italy. The present work, which has been published many times, is characteristic of this artist, to whom only a few works can be attributed. In a dense composition, Verrocchi presents numerous different fruits against a dark background. The fruits are arranged on several levels one above the other, both in baskets and standing freely on the slightly archaic looking table, seen face on. Franco Paliaga writes of the painting in the catalogue of the Munich and Florentine exhibition of 2003: "Our painting shows a masterful control of light, which owes much to the influence of Caravaggio, and thus allows the work to be dated to Verrocchi's mature period [...]". (Exhibition catalogue "Stille Welt", op. cit., p. 170).
Provenance
Formerly Renzo Moroni, Rome.
Literature
Arisi, Ferdinando: Felice Boselli. Pittore di natura morta, Rome 1973, illus. 97. - Salerno, Luigi: La Natura Morta italiana 1560-1805, Rome 1984, p. 102, illus. 25.1. - Cottino, Alberto, in: Exhib. cat. „L'anima e le cose. La natura morta nell'Italia pontificia nel XVII e XVIII secolo, Fano 2001, Modena 2001, p. 61, illus. 61. - Paliaga, Franco, in: Exhib. cat. „Stille Welt. Italienische Stillleben. Arcimboldo, Caravaggio, Strozzi …“, Munich 2002/03, ed. by Mina Gregori & Johann Georg Prinz von Hohenzollern, Mailand 2002, p. 170, with illus. - Cottino, Alberto: L'Incantesimo dei sensi. Una collezione di nature morte del Seicento per il Museo Accorsi, Turin 2005, p. 56-57, 103-104, cat. no. 8, illus. p. 57.
Exhibitions
Stille Welt. Italienische Stillleben. Arcimboldo, Caravaggio, Strozzi …, Munich Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 6.12.2002-23.2.2003 & Florence, Palazzo Strozzi. 26.6.-12.10.2003. - L'incantesimo dei sensi: una collezione di nature morte del Seicento per il Museo Accorsi, Turin, Fondazione Accorsi , 30.11. 2005 -1.5.2006, no. 8.
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