Still Life with Flowers, Fruit and Vegetables
Artist
Giovanni Battista Crescenzi
Italian, b. Rome January 15, 1577–d. Madrid March 17, 1635
Datecirca 1620–1625
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions41 1/4 x 55 in. (104.8 x 139.7 cm)
Frame: 53 1/2 x 67 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (135.9 x 170.8 x 8.9 cm)
Frame: 53 1/2 x 67 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (135.9 x 170.8 x 8.9 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.190
On View
Not on viewW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 224.
Raleigh: The News and Observer (February 9, 1958), illus.
Mina Gregori and Johann Georg Prinz von Hohenzollern, eds., Stille Welt - Italienische Stilleben - Arcimboldo, Caravaggio, Strozzi… (exhibition catalogue) (Munich: Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 2002) discussed 150, illus. (color).
Peter Cherry and Juan J. Luna, Luis Meléndez Bodegones (Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2004), 84, illus. (color) as attributed to Giovanni Battista Crescenzi.
Patrizia Cavazzini, Painting as Business in Early Seventeenth-Century Rome (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University, 2008), mentioned 92, illus. (color) 91, fig. 43, listed xi.
Fiori: Natura e simbolo dal Seicento a Van Gogh (exhibition catalogue) (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2009), cat. no. 8, illus. (color) 59.
La Natura Morta di Federico Zeri, Andrea Bacchi, Francesca Mambelli and Elisabetta Sambo, eds. (Bologna: Fondazione Federico Zeri, 2015), 58, illus. (color), 60, fig. 5.
Caravaggio and His Time: Friends, Rivals, and Enemies (exhibition catalogue) (Tokyo: The National Museum of Western Art, 2016), illus. (color) 91, fig. 5 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Exhibition HistoryNorfolk, VA, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, "El Greco to Goya," November 1958.
Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, "Fruits and Flowers in Painting," August 11-September 14, 1958, cat. no. 27.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Spanish Still-Life Paintings from the Permanent Collection," (collateral exhibition to: "Luis Meléndez: Spanish Still-Life Painter of the Eighteenth Century"), January 12-March 10, 1985, brochure p. 5 (as Unknown artist, Neapolitan).
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, "Stille Welt - Italienische Stilleben - Arcimboldo, Caravaggio, Strozzi . . .," December 6, 2002-March 9, 2003, discussed 150 (as by Giovanni Battista Crescenzi), illus. (color).
Forli, Italy, San Domenico Museum, "Flowers: Nature and Symbol from the Seventeenth Century to Van Gogh," January 20-June, 2010, cat. no. 8, illus. (color) 59.
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Della Robbia family workshop
circa 1520–1525
Buglioni family workshop
circa 1520–1535
