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Master Paintings
Circle of Margherita Caffi
Still life of flowers in a glass vase
Lot Closed
October 21, 04:27 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Circle of Margherita Caffi
Still life of flowers in a glass vase
oil on canvas
canvas: 15 by 11½ in.; 38.1 by 29.2 cm.
framed: 19½ by 15⅞ in.; 49.5 by 40.3 cm.
Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 22 June 2010, lot 86;
Thereafter acquired by the present collector.
Thereafter acquired by the present collector.
This charming still life is by an artist working in the circle of the late-seventeenth-century Italian painter, Margherita Caffi. The work is characteristic of her oeuvre: the intimate composition's colorful blooms, rendered with painterly bravura, are offset by the dark background.