Fede Galizia (Milan 1578-Milan 1630)
Still Life of Cherries in a Bowl c.1610-30
Oil on panel | 29.6 x 40.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405502
Queen's Dining Room, Kensington Palace
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Against a dark background stands a white, open-work porcelain bowl of cherries, some with their stalks and leaves attached. To the left and right of the bowl lie clusters of more cherries. The cherry appears as a 'fruit of paradise' in some religious pictures, such as Carracci's Madonna and the Sleeping Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (RCIN 404762), but it remains unclear if any particular symbolic significance is intended by the fruit in this picture.
The picture was at one time catalogued as a seventeenth-century Dutch work, but the current attribution, to the Italian Fede Galizia, is based on the similarities between this work and Galizia's Still Life with Peaches in a Porcelain Bowl (Silvano Lodi collection, Campione d'Italia), in particular the design of the bowl.Provenance
In the collection of Charles I, whose CR brand appears on the reverse; an old label, also on the reverse, 'Daniel ny[s]', suggests that the picture may have been acquired through him; impossible to identify in the Commonwealth Sale but clearly recovered at the Restoration and listed in the King's Dressing Room next Paradise at Hampton Court in 1666 (no 59).
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on panel
Measurements
29.6 x 40.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
39.0 x 49.7 x 4.8 cm (frame, external)
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Alternative title(s)
A delft dish with cherries on a table, previously entitled
A dish of Cherries, previously entitled
