Still Life with Fruit
Artist
Luca Forte
(Italian, 1605 - 1670)
Datebefore 1647
CultureItalian
MediumOil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
ProvenanceDon Giuseppe Carafa (d. 1647), Naples. (Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York); purchased by the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, 1961.
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1961
Object numberSN715
The canvas is lusciously crowded with fruit—apples, grapes, and bursting figs. The name of the painting’s owner appears in the upper part of the canvas. It is fashioned from a piece of string that one bird delivers to another.
On View
On viewLocation
- Museum of Art, Gallery 13, Wall West
Collections
Lucas Cranach the Younger
17th century
