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Wednesday 28 May 2025, 04:00 PM • Rome

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Giovanni Crivelli, detto il Crivellino

(Milano ? - Parma 1760)

Fish and porcini mushrooms in a wooden tub, with owl and frog

Estimate

€ 3.000 - 5.000

Sold

€ 10.860

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

oil on canvas
cm 113 x 133
Photographic references
Fototeca Zeri, no. 86133 (as Angelo Maria Crivelli, known as Crivellone)

Provenance

Christie's, London, 19 April 1991, lot 130 (as Felice Boselli);
private collection

Literature

A. Crispo, Il Ducato Farnesiano. Aspetti della natura morta a Parma e Piacenza, in D. Benati e L. Peruzzi, La Natura morta in Emilia e in Romagna. Pittori, centri di produzione e collezionismo fra XVII e XVIII secolo, Milano, 2000, ill. p. 151 n. 151 e p. 155;
F. Arisi, Crivellone e Crivellino, Piacenza, 2004, pp. 345 e 460, ill. p. 528 n. 89
The painting is undoubtedly to be considered one of the highest quality compositions in Crivellino's production (F. Arisi, 2004, p. 345). Dated by Arisi between 1720 and 1730, the work has a strong stylistic relationship with the two famous canvases in the Cova Minotti collection in Milan, among the most important created by the artist, depicting Fish and crustaceans on the seashore and Fish, wild animals, owl, snail and ovules (for comparison see F. Arisi, 2004, pp. 512 and 513, no. 70 and 71). The dialogue appears particularly stringent especially with the second one (F. Arisi, 2004, n. 71), in which we find some passages also present in the work offered in the lot (the net, the owl, the frog, the wooden tub), repeated in a completely similar way almost as if to create a variant of the same theme.