Lot 137
Lot 137
Property from a private Dutch collection
ATTRIBUÉ À PAOLO PORPORA (1617-1673)

Nature morte aux muricidae, rostellariidae, haliotidae et éponges

Price Realised EUR 17,640
Estimate
EUR 10,000 - EUR 15,000
Closed: 17 Nov 2023
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ATTRIBUÉ À PAOLO PORPORA (1617-1673)

Nature morte aux muricidae, rostellariidae, haliotidae et éponges

Price Realised EUR 17,640
Closed: 17 Nov 2023
Price Realised EUR 17,640
Closed: 17 Nov 2023
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ATTRIBUÉ À PAOLO PORPORA (1617-1673)
Nature morte aux muricidae, rostellariidae, haliotidae et éponges
huile sur toile
60,3 x 74 cm. (2334 x 2918 in.)
Provenance
Acquis sur le marché de l'art au début des années 1960 ; puis par descendance aux actuels propriétaires, Amsterdam.
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ATTRIBUTED TO PAOLO PORPORA, STILL LIFE WITH MURICIDAE, ROSTELLARIIDAE, HALIOTIDAE AND SPONGES, OIL ON CANVAS

Paolo Porpora (1617-1673) entered Giacomo Recco's (1603-1653) Neapolitan workshop at the age of fifteen. After the death of his teacher, he left Naples for Rome, where he became a member of the Accademia di San Luca, which he attended between 1655 and 1670. It was in Rome that he met Northern painters such as Otto Marseus van Schrink (1613-1678) and Matthias Withoos (1627-1703), who undoubtedly influenced his Roman output, which tended more towards forest floor scenes.

There are few sources describing Porpora's life, but Bernardo de' Dominici's (1683-1759) life of the painter described his favourite objects as 'pesci, ostriche, lumache, buccine ed altre conche marine (...)' [fish, oysters, snails, whelks and other marine vessels (...)] (see B. de Dominici, Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti napoletani, Naples, 1743, pp. 75-80).

According to Giuseppe Porzio, these Mediterranean themed paintings are linked for the most part to the Neapolitan years (G. Porzio, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 2016, 85). We know of two paintings of upside-down shells heaped together that can be compared with our intriguing composition of unusual sponges. Federico Zeri (1921-1998) reproduces a still life described as belonging to a private Neapolitan collection (F. Zeri, La natura morta in Italia, Milan, 1989, II, no. 1080), as well as a still life from the Lodi collection that also features oysters and pearly shells placed on a rock ledge executed in reddish tones (F. Zeri, ibid, no. 1081).
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