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505 - PANFILO NUVOLONE (Cremona, 1581 – Milan, 1651) - Still Life …
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Estimate €110,000 - €150,000
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PANFILO NUVOLONE (Cremona, 1581 – Milan, 1651) - Still Life with Lemon and Apples Oil on slate. Dimensions: 17 x 19.5 cm. Dimensions including frame: 31.5 x 37.5 cm. We are grateful to Professors Sandro Bellesi and Giancarlo Sestieri for their assistance in cataloguing this work, whose attribution to Panfilo Nuvolone has been confirmed by both specialists. Their respective expert reports are attached. This painting is a refined example of the still lifes produced by Panfilo Nuvolone, one of the most prominent and original figures in the Lombard art scene of the first half of the 17th century. The composition depicts two apples of different shades and a lemon arranged on a stone shelf, creating a scene of extraordinary formal simplicity yet great visual intensity. Far from any narrative artifice, Nuvolone focuses all attention on the direct observation of the fruit, studied with meticulous naturalism and a sensitivity to light that reveals the artist’s profound interest in the representation of nature. Regarded as one of the most charismatic figures in 17th-century Lombard still-life painting, Panfilo Nuvolone developed a personal style that blended the naturalistic tradition derived from Caravaggio with an extraordinary ability to lend a sense of grandeur to the humblest of objects. Although his fame also rests on his religious compositions and large altarpieces, it was in the still-life genre that he produced some of his most original and highly regarded works. In this work, painted on slate—a surface particularly prized during the 17th century for the chromatic intensity and visual depth it lends to painting—the fruit takes on an almost sculptural presence thanks to the masterful treatment of light and the economy of means employed by the artist. The composition can be considered a small pictorial gem, fully representative of the reflection on the study of nature that characterised the finest Lombard art of the period. The work was exhibited at the ...
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About the sale GRAND SUMMER AUCTION OF HAUTE ÉPOQUE AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
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Auction time 06/29/2026 at 4:00 AM
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