Lot 321: FRANZ GODIN, CALLED FRANCESCO CODINO | Still life with grapes in a porcelain bowl, fruit in a gilt tazza and other objects

oil on poplar panel, with an unidentified brand on the reverse

43.1 by 59.9 cm.; 17 by 23 1/2  in.

oil on poplar panel, with an unidentified brand on the reverse

The support is made of a single panel supported by two wood batons on the reverse. The paint surface is stable and the varnish clear and even. There is one surface scratch measuring 12 cm. to the lower right running through the right of the loaf into the fruit on the platter, visible also in the catalogue image. There are some other more minor surface scratches upper left. There has been a degree of movement in the panel, the result of which is two hairline horizontal fractures, stable and barely visible, measuring 13 cm. and 25 cm. in length running from the right margin approximately two thirds up the the panel. Inspection under ultra violet light reveals small retouchings to the dark tones of the background at the right margin, further strengthenings to the grapes and to the fruit upper right. Offered in a simple wood and gilt frame with ripple mouldings in fair condition.
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E. Greindl, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVII^e siècle, Deurne 1983, p. 338, cat. no. 9, reproduced p. 192, fig. 35 (as Pieter Binoit);
G. Bott, Die Stillebenmaler Soreau, Binoit, Codino und Marrell in Hanau und Frankfurt 1600-1650, Hanau 2001, p. 221, cat. no. WV.C.26, reproduced (as Francesco Codino).

Private collection, Munich.