A Vase of Flowers

1625-1650 (Baroque)

31.5 cm 40.5 cm 0.8 cm

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The play of light over delicate blossoms, highlighting them against a dark background is characteristic of flower painting in Naples in the 1600s. Giacomo Recco was the father of Giuseppe Recco, who developed the theme in a more adventuresome way, as in Walters 37.1856.

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 467, as Mario dei Fiori]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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