Lot 204: CHRISTIAN BERENTZ

HAMBURG 1658-1722 ROME
STILL LIFE WITH A MELON AND A PEACH ON A SILVER PLATTER, TOGETHER WITH A GLASS BOWL OF GRAPES AND A TRAY OF ASSORTED GLASSWARE ON A MARBLE TABLE TOP PARTLY DRAPED WITH A BLUE CLOTH
oil on canvas, unframed
98.7 by 74.9 cm.; 38 7/8 by 29 1/2 in.

G. De Logu, La Natura Morta Italiana, Bergamo 1962, pp. 115, 182, 189, reproduced fig. 114 (as Gabriele Salci);
L. Salerno, La natura morta italiana. 1560-1805, Rome 1984, p. 264, no. 72.1 (as by Salci);
L. Laureati and L. Trezzani, 'La natura morta postcaravaggesca a Roma', in La natura morta in Italia, ed. F. Zeri, Milan 1989, p. 844, reproduced fig. 1004 (as by Salci);
G. and U. Bocchi, Pittori di natura morta a Roma. Artisti stranieri, Viadana 2004, p. 305 (as by Berentz);
G. and U. Bocchi, Pittori di natura morta a Roma. Artisti italiani 1630-1750, Viadana 2005, pp. 712, 714, n.16 (as by Berentz).