Attributed to Bernardo Lorente Germán

With Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, by 1959.

A.E. Pérez Sánchez, La Nature Morte Espagnole du XVIIe siècle à Goya, Fribourg 1987, pp. 171 and 174, reproduced (as Anonymous Sevillian, circa 1725);
A. Sánchez López, La Pintura de Bodegones Y Floreros en España en el Siglo XVIII, 2008, p. 632, no. 5 , reproduced fig. 71 (as close to Lorente or his follower Juanfranco Morales).

Relined and surface has been pressed as a result. scattered discolored old retouches are visible to naked eye throughout. detail is well retained and painting still reads well. under UV: scattered retouches as mentioned mostly in brown background areas. this painting has not been attended to in a long time and would benefit from sensitive restoration and a readdressing of the old, discolored retouches which could be made to look much better. In a black wood frame with gilt inner and outer rim.
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