Property from an Important Private Collection
Pietro Navarra
Still life of pomegranates, grapes, figs, plums and peaches on a silver plate, together with a fragment of a classical column, arranged in a landscape
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Pietro Navarra
act. Rome, end of 17th century
Still life of pomegranates, grapes, figs, plums and peaches on a silver plate, together with a fragment of a classical column, arranged in a landscape
signed with monogram, centre right: P.N (in ligature)
oil on canvas
unframed: 48.6 x 64.4 cm.; 19⅛ x 25⅜ in.
framed: 69.6 x 86.2 cm.; 27⅜ x 34 in.
Schloss Fuschl Collection, Salzburg (according to a label on the reverse);
With Newhouse Galleries, New York;
Where acquired by a private collector, New York, in 1988;
By whom anonymously sold ('Property from a Private Collection'), London, Sotheby's, 7 July 2005, lot 174, for £60,000;
With Colnaghi, London;
Where acquired by the present owner.
A group of still lifes formerly given to the hand known as 'The Monogrammist P.N.' was identified by Federico Zeri as by Pietro Navarra. Navarra’s style is reminiscent of other still-life artists working in Rome and Naples during the later seventeenth century, namely Giovanni Paolo Castelli, called Spadino (1659–1730) and Christian Berentz (1658–1722), but his works are imbued with a characteristic vivacity of colour and light.
The present painting may be compared to two other monogrammed still lifes by the artist today in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome.1
1 F. Zeri (ed.), La Natura Morta in Italia, Milan 1989, p. 825, nos 978 and 979, reproduced.
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