Still Life with Apples, Grapes and a Dragonfly

Image credit: Compton Verney

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The fruit displayed here includes three apples and two types of grapes from the Vesuvius area – fragola or ‘strawberry’ grapes and an elongated variety known as cornicella. Small still-life paintings were typical of Luca Forte’s production, but unusually this work is painted on copper, the smooth surface of which enhances the shining surfaces of the apples. Forte concentrates on painting the fruit’s imperfections and solidity, and on rending the tiny dragonfly, all of which suggest close observation from nature.

Compton Verney

Compton Verney

Title

Still Life with Apples, Grapes and a Dragonfly

Medium

oil on copper

Measurements

H 15.6 x W 20.6 cm

Accession number

CVCSC : 0240.S

Acquisition method

purchased, 1998

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

painted : artist's initials : lf

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