Gaspare Lopez (naples, 1650 Ca. - Florence, 1732), Still Life With Flowers And Plate

Gaspare Lopez (Naples, 1650 ca. - Florence, 1732)

Still life with flowers, plate and otre

Oil on canvas, cm 48 x 69

With frame, cm 75 x 94

The still life that we describe here is attributed to the production of paintings by the Neapolitan school, which between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was distinguished by the creation of paintings related to this genre. There were many painters who tried this genre, inspired also by the visits and the presence of French or Flemish colleagues in the city, even passing on their art to close family members and thus forming real shops: is the case of Giuseppe Recco, with his children Elena and Nicola Maria, Lorenzo and Giuseppe de Caro, sons of Baldassarre or Francesco and Giuseppe Lavagna, whose works are very close to ours. Although there are many tangencies with the setting, subject and bright tone of Francesco Lavagna, the work appears closer to the production of another Neapolitan painter, namely Gaspare Lopes. The extreme harmony between the two is also found in the probable path of discipleship within the workshop of Andrea Belvedere, although the name of Lavagna does not appear in the records while that of Lopes yes. The latter was influenced by the ornamental style of Monnoyer, a French painter and watercolourist of baroque taste, imported into the city of Naples by Jean Baptiste Doubisson, from whom he learned the frivolous taste for decorativism and the strong chromaticism of the colors. In addition to his apprenticeship in his hometown, he had the opportunity to travel for a long time during his life, visiting Venice, Florence, Rome but also Poland, as biographer Bernardo De Dominici reports.