Lot N. 5
Giuseppe Recco (1634 - 1695)
Fish and mollusk
(1634-1695)
oil on canvas, framed, some defects
cm 45,5x67
The following technical sheet of the work was created by Professor Sandro Bellesi as part of the inventory of the paintings of the Fattoria Franceschini.
The work, appreciable for its good pictorial quality emphasized by brilliant strokes of light, presents an overwhelming composition of fish and molluscs, piled one on top of the other, set within an indefinite space with neutral tones. Thanks to the comparison with typologically similar paintings and style characters, it is possible to assign it to the catalog of Giuseppe Recco, one of the most admired Neapolitan masters in the genre of still life in the seventeenth century in the Italian peninsula. Specialized above all in the creation of compositions with flowers and fruit or fish, Recco, born in the Neapolitan capital in 1634, after having worked for many years in his hometown was called to work in Spain, where, in 1695, he died in Alicante. Relevant for an assignment of the canvas in question to Recco, the comparison with certain works by this artist is appropriate, among which it is sufficient to mention for greater affinity, the Fishes already in the marquisal palace of Adelfia, near Bari, and the Still life with fish in the Museum of Still Life in the Medici Villa in Poggio a Caiano.
The work, appreciable for its good pictorial quality emphasized by brilliant strokes of light, presents an overwhelming composition of fish and molluscs, piled one on top of the other, set within an indefinite space with neutral tones. Thanks to the comparison with typologically similar paintings and style characters, it is possible to assign it to the catalog of Giuseppe Recco, one of the most admired Neapolitan masters in the genre of still life in the seventeenth century in the Italian peninsula. Specialized above all in the creation of compositions with flowers and fruit or fish, Recco, born in the Neapolitan capital in 1634, after having worked for many years in his hometown was called to work in Spain, where, in 1695, he died in Alicante. Relevant for an assignment of the canvas in question to Recco, the comparison with certain works by this artist is appropriate, among which it is sufficient to mention for greater affinity, the Fishes already in the marquisal palace of Adelfia, near Bari, and the Still life with fish in the Museum of Still Life in the Medici Villa in Poggio a Caiano.