Follower of Jacopo Ligozzi, 18th century

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

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Description

Follower of Jacopo Ligozzi, 18th century
A decapitated head upon a book, a macabre momento mori
dated on the seal lower centre: 1728
oil on canvas

Provenance

Private collection, Nancy, France.

Catalogue Note

After a larger and more elaborate version of the present painting by Ligozzi on the reverse of a sensitive portrait of a young boy in the collection of Lord Aberconway, Bodnant, Wales.¹That portrait bears the date 1604; memento mori by Ligozzi rank among the earliest modern Italian examples of still life painting.²

1. See L. Salerno, La Natura Morta Italiana, Rome 1984, p. 30, reproduced fig. 9.2
2. Salerno 1984, p. 30