Mid-17th-Century Neapolitan School, Still Life With Grapes, Peaches, Plums & Figs On A Silver Platter autumn 14 Brownlow Street

14 Brownlow Street

A pond reflects from beyond them

a girl gathers sticks on the shore of a broad waterway

Hausleithner was an accomplished painter of religion

The buildings feel historic and timeworn - there are no clean lines along this raggedy old road

Mid-17th-Century Neapolitan School, Still Life With Grapes, Peaches, Plums & Figs On A Silver Platter autumn 14 Brownlow StreetThis elaborate mid 17th century Neapolitan school still life depicts a pyramidal arrangement of fruit on a circular silver platter. Its somewhat reminiscent of works by Luca Forte (c. 1615 c. 1670). Emboldened by Baroque chirascuro, blushing peaches radiate amid a display of Naples finest. Perched atop a sprawl of decadent grapes, plums and figs reflect glints of carefully observed light. Theres the occasional wormhole perhaps a symbolic nod to the