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Margherita Caffi, Italian 1648-1710- Floral still life with tulips, peonies, and convolvulus in...
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Margherita Caffi,
Italian 1648-1710-
Floral still life with tulips, peonies, and convolvulus in...
Price Realised: £5,510
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000
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Lot 367
Description
Margherita Caffi,
Italian 1648-1710-
Floral still life with tulips, peonies, and convolvulus in two vases, on a ledge;
oil on canvas, 55.3 x 71.6 cm.
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 8 May 2012, lot 34 (€12,500).
Note:
Previously thought to have been Venetian, it has since been confirmed that Margherita Caffi was born in Milan, as the daughter of the still life painter Vincenzo Voló (1620-1671), who later married the Cremonese artist Francesco Caffi. Many of her works are found in the collection of the Prado Museum, Madrid, whose note described how: 'She worked in Tuscany for the Medicis and in Innsbruck and in Madrid for the House of Austria. She primarily devoted herself to painting flower arrangements. Her compositions are characterized by the chromatic predominance of blue and carmine, as well as by the contrast between bright white spots against shadowed backgrounds. She rarely used landscape backgrounds to set her still life paintings. The flower arrangements are usually displayed in two irregularly sized groups, giving a certain movement to the composition. Unlike her Northern European contemporaries, she does not seem to show a scientific intention in describing the flowers, often inventing flower species using her imagination.'
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