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Catalogue raisonné: Description in Italian Paintings: Three Centuries of Collecting, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2015, cat.no. 92: 

FORMER INV. NOS.: 138 (M. 1796–97); 459 (F. 1798); 106 (M. 1804);
KM 830.

PROVENANCE: Martelli 1804.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Sander 1872–76, III, p. 102, no. 106 (as Spadino);
NM Cat. 1958, p. 236 (as anonymous 18th century); NM Cat. 1990,
p. 429 (as anonymous 18th century).

The present painting is the pendant to NM 5268
(cat. no. 92), and is attributed to Spadino both in
Fredenheim’s catalogue and by Corvi and Tofanelli.
The assessment of it must be the same as
that of its companion; the distinct character of
the various fruits is realized in a way very similar
to that found in Giovanni Paolo Castelli’s other
work, for example NM 33 (cat. no. 90). Again, we
find the thin, white cross-hatched brushstrokes
of the highlights of the grapes, coupled with the
“clouded hue” realized by somewhat broader and
rounded, transparent white brushstrokes, which
also form the outline of the fruit. In the present
work, there are also pomegranates and apples,
where the red patches of the skins are depicted
in typical Spadino fashion, with a flurry of short
broad brushstrokes, adjusted to give just the right
“illusion” of their different natural textures.
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