Bidspirit auction | Giovan Battista Ruoppolo (Napoli, 1629

Giovan Battista Ruoppolo (Napoli, 1629 – 1693) - Cherries, lemons and fish on a plane. oil on canvas cm 72x96 within an important golden frame In the painting, the strong light-shadow contrast and the firm vision of the objects suggest a dating to the years 1660/1670, at the end of the painter's youthful career, still influenced by the naturalistic shots of Luca Forte and by the Caravaggio-esque suggestions of the Roman environment. Exhibitions: Italian still life Naples , Palazzo Reale, 1 October - 1 November 1964: Zurich Kunsthaus Museum, Rotterdam Bojmans Museum Seventeenth-century Civilizations Naples , Capodimonte Museum and Pignatelli Museum, October 1984 - April 1985 Bibliography: I talian still life - Naples , 1964, Plate 43 a, page. 56, Exhibition catalog page 64 Aspects of ancient Italian still life Bergamo 1968, Exhibition catalog page 44 Raffaello Causa Seventeenth-century painting in Naples from Naturalism to Baroque. II The still life a  Naples in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , Naples 1972 pag. 1017-1045 and fig 75 Civilization of the Seventeenth Century in Naples - Naples, 1984 pag. 434, Exhibition catalog p.434