Antique Flemish oil painting on canvas depicting still life with fruit. 18th century period.

Description: The 18th century is the golden age of still life, particularly in Northern Europe (but also in Italy and Spain). There is a significant demand for this type of painting, mostly from a new audience of bourgeois buyers. The great increase in demand favored a process of specialization, with the identification of 'subgenres' linked to the predominant content of the paintings and with specific denominations. Therefore, artists specialize in creating still lifes that have food, flowers, or musical instruments as their theme, and other objects that constitute a particular type of still life, called vanitas (a theme, moreover, to which still lifes in general often allude). Our work depicts a still life with fruit with a silver tankard in the center. The work shows some technical characteristics including the wide range of colors that are inserted in the plays of transparencies resulting in chiaroscuro and reflections. To the shaded world of the time, the artist contrasts luminosity and chromatic innovations, alternating with virtuosity and stylistic and chromatic interweaving. Conditions: Excellent condition. Measurements: 75x97cm. Origin: Holland 18th century. Document: Certificate of Authenticity. Assistance: We are at your disposal for further clarification or photographic details Shipping: Throughout Italy, Europe and the Rest of the World at very low prices in maximum safety and traceable. Shipping will be agreed privately and will not be costly. We wish you a good day. Borrelli Antiquities.