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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 31, 2013 | Sotheby's | New York | Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture | 29 | $****** - ****** | Still Life With Fruit On a Stone Ledge |
paintings
87.2 x 135.4 cm (34.33 x 53.31 in)
oil on canvas
Possibly Cardinal Antonio Barberini, Palazzo ai Giubbonari, Rome, by 1671
Possibly bequeathed to his brother, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, Rome, 1672
Private collection, Madrid
Anonymous sale, Madrid, Edmund Peel & Asociados, 20 February 1992, lot 5 (as Follower of Caravaggio)
There purchased by the present owner.
Possibly inventory of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, 1671 (IV.inv.71), p. 495, no. 354; Possibly inventory of bequests of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, 1672 (IV. hered. 72), sc. 22182, no. 141;; Possibly M.A. Lavin, "Caravaggio Documents from the Barberini Archive", in The Burlington Magazine, August 1967;; Possibly M.A. Lavin, Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art, New York 1975, pp. 309, 342;; Possibly A. Moir, Caravaggio and His Copyists, New York 1976, p. 124, note 185 (where connected to the picture in the 1671 Barberini inventory);; M. Cinotti, Caravaggio: tutte le opera, Bergamo 1983, cat. no. 125 (as lost); Possibly M. Gregori, The Age of Caravaggio, exhibition catalogue, New York 1985, p. 208, under cat. no. 64 (where described only as a picture possibly connected to the Barberini still life); M. Gregori, Caravaggio, Milan 1994;; J.T. Spike, "Caravaggio erotico" in FMR, 75, August 1995, pp. 14–22 (as by Caravaggio);; L. Pratesi, "L'Altra natura di Caravaggio", in L'Espresso, December 1995;; G. Berra, "Arcimboldi e Caravaggio: 'Diligenza' e 'Patienza' nella natura morta arcaica.", in Paragone, 8–10, 1996, pp. 108–61, 128–29, 154, n. 88 (quotes Baglione,"unequivocally indicates plurality in the production of still life's by Caravaggio"; from photo seems later in date); J.T. Spike, in S. Macioce (ed). Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. La vita e le opere attraverso i documenti. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Rome 1996, pp. 212–19, reproduced, fig. 85 (as by Caravaggio, where dated to 1605); C. Puglisi, Caravaggio, London 1998, cat. no. 45 (with a doubted attribution to Caravaggio, and dated to circa 1603); P. Robb, M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio, Sydney 1998, pp. 497, 511 (where given as probably right, and dated to 1605); J. Varriano, "Torna Betseba," in Quadri e sculture, vol. 6, 1998, p. 39;; J.T. Spike, Caravaggio, New York and London 2001, pp. 143-6, 253, cat. no. 35, reproduced in color (dated to 1603, as by Caravaggio);; R. Conway Morris, "Caravaggio's still lifes paved the way for Italian artists : The pioneer and his followers," in The International Herald Tribune, August 2003;; J. Spike, in E. Capon (ed.), Caravaggio & His World: Darkness & Light, exhibition catalogue, Sydney and Melbourne 2003-2004, pp. 12-13, 20, 92-93, 227, cat. no. 7, reproduced in color (as by Caravaggio);; J. Paton, How to Look at a Painting, Wellington 2005;; J. Varriano, "Fruits and Vegetables as Sexual Metaphor in Late Renaissance Rome", in Gastronomica, Fall 2005;; J. Varriano, Caravaggio: The Art of Realism, University Park, Pennsylvania 2006, pp. 69-70, reproduced, fig. 57 (no firm opinion offered on an attribution);; M. Warner, "An Early Masterpiece of Stll-Life Painting", in The Kimbell Art Museum Calendar, February 2007 (as by Caravaggio);; J.T. Spike, Caravaggio, second revised edition, New York and London 2010, pp. 143-6, 259, cat. no. 35, reproduced in color (dated to 1603, as by Caravaggio);; A.H. de Groft (ed.), Caravaggio: Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge, Papers of the Muscarelle Museum of Art, vol. I, Williamsburg, Virginia 2010;; C. Barbieri and D. Frascarelli (ed.), Natura Morta: Rappresentazione dell'Oggetto, Oggetto come Rappresentazione, Naples 2010;; H. Adams, "A Fruitful Inquiry", in Art and Antiques Magazine, May 2011.
