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The 18th century was the golden age of still life painting, particularly in Northern Europe (but also in Italy and Spain).
There was considerable demand for this type of painting, mainly from a new audience of middle-class buyers.
The sharp rise in demand favored a process of specialization, with the identification of "sub-genres" linked to the predominant content of the paintings and with specific names.
Artists thus specialized in creating still lifes with a theme of food, or flowers, or musical instruments and other objects that constitute a particular type of still life, known as vanitas (a theme, incidentally, to which still lifes in general often allude).
Our work depicts a fruit still life with a silver tankard in the center.
The work's technical features include a wide range of colors, set against a play of transparencies that give rise to chiaroscuro and reflections.
Against the dark world of the time, the artist contrasts luminosity and chromatic innovation, alternating with virtuosity and stylistic and chromatic interlacing.
Condition: Excellent.
Dimensions : 95x110cm.
Provenance : Holland 18th century.
Document : Certificate of authenticity.
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