Juan Fernandez "El Labrador" así apodado por su vida retirada en
el campo, se dedicó al tema de las flores y las frutas, quizá como dice
Antonio Palomino, porque se dedicaba a labrar la tierra y a cultivarlas,
pero también gracias a uno de sus mecenas, Anthur Hopton que le convenció
por considerar que el tema era muy comercial. Su Florero de 1636 es
muy original en el contexto español por su forma, soporte de madera y
estilo, las flores se abren en abanico, presentadas de una manera
pseudobotánica, las azucenas y los claveles en todo su ciclo de floración,
como si los capullos se fueran abriendo lentamente ante el espectador.
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Library of America edition note
page 806:
367.23 rue des Jeunes
Martyres...Ovenman] Cf. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's poster
Le Divan
japonais (1892-93),
which advertised the cabaret of E. Fournier (French
four means "oven") at 75 rue des Martyres in
Paris, and the photographed modern-dress version of the poster, with
the original in the background, that appeared in a Barton & Guestier
wine advertisment that ran in The New Yorker in the 1960s. Nabokov told Bobbie Ann Mason
that the photograph "is meticulously described by Van...and should
be looked up by all admirers of
Lucette." |
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Descrizione: Bruslot a la fonde.
Acquaforte colorata ad acquarello 1760. Cm 30,4x39,8. Claude
Randon. Pontoise 1674-Roma 1704. Incisore. Ha inciso soggetti
religiosi e ritratti. “Les plans de plusieurs batiments de mer avec leurs
proportions” sono opera di due artisti che hanno lo stesso nome
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Still Life with a Basket of Fruit (1601)
This stunning still
life (Fig. 6), with trompe l'oeil realism, consists entirely of a
basket of fruit. Spike (2001) attributes it to 1596 while Puglosi (1998)
assigns it 1601, the same year as Supper at Emmaus, The 1601 date
seems more likely to me for a number of reasons, and I have assigned that
date here. The fruit baskets in both Supper at Emmaus and Still
Life with a Basket of Fruit are the same, both perched precariously on
the edge of a table, but with a different collection of fruit (possibly
excluding the quince) that appears almost identical in both paintings.
(Could it be the same specimen?) We will never know for certain but I
suggest this may have been either a preparatory painting for the larger
Supper at Emmaus. Perhaps pleased with the result, Caravaggio added
it to the Supper at Emmaus as an afterthought. This basket contains
a peach, a summer fruit, suggesting that this image was painted first. Six
different fruits are visible. The uppermost fruit is a good-sized,
light-red peach attached to a stem with wormholes in the leaf resembling
damage by oriental fruit moth (Orthosia hibisci). Beneath it is a
single bicolored apple, shown from a stem perspective with two insect
entry holes, probably codling moth, one of which shows secondary rot at
the edge; one blushed yellow pear with insect predations resembling damage
by leaf roller (Archips argyospita); four figs, two white and two
purple—the purple ones dead ripe and splitting along the sides, plus a
large fig leaf with a prominent fungal scorch lesion resembling
anthracnose (Glomerella cingulata); and a single unblemished quince
with a leafy spur showing fungal spots. There are four clusters of grapes,
black, red, golden, and white; the red cluster on the right shows several
mummied fruit, while the two clusters on the left each show an overripe
berry. There are two grape leaves, one severely desiccated and shriveled
while the other contains spots and evidence of an egg mass. In the right
part of the basket are two green figs and a ripe black one is nestled in
the rear on the left. On the sides of the basket are two disembodied
shoots: to the right is a grape shoot with two leaves, both showing severe
insect predations resembling grasshopper feeding; to the left is a
floating spur of quince or pear.
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Juan Zurbaran "Bodegyn con cest de manzanas,
membrillosy granadas" Museo Nacional d'lArt de Catalunya
Barcelona
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