Bidspirit auction | Still Life, European School, 19th

Still Life, European School, 19th Century - Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 109 x 163.5 cm. A large Baroque composition featuring a still life of game and fruit: a rabbit hanging in the foreground, birds arranged on the ground, and a basket of fruit overflowing, all framed in a somber and theatrical setting. The execution emphasizes the contrasts of light and shadow, the texture of the fur and feathers, and the chromatic richness of the fruit. This pictorial tradition, inherited from the Baroque still lifes of the 17th century, was kept alive in 19th-century European academies as an exercise in technical virtuosity.