Still Life with Figure, ca. 1660
Michele Pace del Campidoglio
Italian, ca. 1610-ca. 1670
Oil on canvas
- This exuberant representation of fruits and vegetables is an example of still-life painting. While celebrating nature's beauty and variety, its components may also suggest life's passage from ripeness to decay.
- Elaborately staged paintings such as this one were often commissioned to decorate private homes, symbolizing their owners' prosperity. Still-life specialists sometimes collaborated with figure painters, which was likely the case here. A young boy originally leaned in at the left to admire the cascading harvest, but he was later overpainted and replaced by a voluptuous young woman, perhaps at the request of a patron.
No. 60.107
Mary B. Jackson Fund
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