Property from a Private Collection
Christian Berentz
Still life with a melon and a peach on a silver platter, with a glass bowl of grapes and assorted glassware
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Christian Berentz
Hamburg 1658–1722 Rome
Still life with a melon and a peach on a silver platter, with a glass bowl of grapes and a tray of assorted glassware on a marble table top, partly draped with a blue cloth
oil on canvas
unframed: 99.3 x 75.2 cm.; 39⅛ x 29⅝ in.
framed: 135.2 x 111.8 cm.; 53¼ x 44 in.
Collection of the Princes of Liechtenstein, Schloss Vaduz, Liechtenstein;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 7 July 2011, lot 204, for £73,250;
Where acquired by the present owner.
G. De Logu, Natura Morta Italiana, Bergamo 1962, p. 190, reproduced p. 182, fig. 114 (as Gabriele Salci);
L. Salerno, La natura morta italiana, 1560–1805, Rome 1984, p. 264, no. 72.1, reproduced (as Gabriele Salci);
L. Laureati and L. Trezzani, 'La natura morta postcaravaggesca a Roma', in La natura morta in Italia, F. Zeri (ed.), Milan 1989, vol. II, p. 844, reproduced fig. 1004 (as Gabriele Salci);
G. and U. Bocchi, Pittori di natura morta a Roma. Artisti stranieri 1630–1750, Viadana 2004, p. 305 (as Christian Berentz);
G. and U. Bocchi, Pittori di natura morta a Roma. Artisti italiani 1630–1750, Viadana 2005, pp. 712 and 714, n. 16 (as Christian Berentz).
Though long attributed to the Italian painter Gabriele Salci (act. first half of the 18th century), Bocchi and Bocchi (see Literature) were the first to correctly associate this elegant still life with the work of his German-born contemporary, Christian Berentz. The former attribution had no doubt arisen because of the numerous points of contact between this work and Salci's signed and dated masterpiece of 1716, Still Life with glass, parrot and violin, which is still in the Liechtenstein Princely Collections at Vaduz.1
1 Inv. no. GE 1133; oil on canvas, 100 x 75 cm.; https://www.liechtensteincollections.at/en/collections-online/still-life-with-basket-of-fruit-parrot-violin-fine-glassware-and-flowers.
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