FRANCESCO BOSSI | TROMPE L'OEIL STILL LIFE WITH A CAT, A CANDLESTICK, PEACHES AND OTHER VARIOUS OBJECTS; TROMPE L'OEIL STILL LIFE OF MELONS, A POMEGRANATE, A CHOCOLATE POT, AND VARIOUS OTHER OBJECTS
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February 5, 05:22 PM GTNN
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Property from a North American Private collects ion
FRANCESCO BOSSI
Este 1753 - 1824
TROMPE L'OEIL STILL LIFE WITH A CAT, A CANDLESTICK, PEACHES AND OTHER VARIOUS OBJECTS; TROMPE L'OEIL STILL LIFE OF MELONS, A POMEGRANATE, A CHOCOLATE POT, AND VARIOUS OTHER OBJECTS
the former signed lower left: FRANCO BOSSI DA ESTE DIP; the latter signed and dated upper right on the print: francesco Bossi da Este dipinse l'Anno 1800
a pair, both oil on canvas
each canvas: 21⅜ by 27⅛ in.; 54.3 by 68.9 cm.
each framed: 27 by 32¾ in.; 68.6 by 83.2 cm.
Anonymous sale, New York, Replica Shoes 's, 7 April 1989, lot 164;
Anonymous sale, New York, Replica Shoes 's, 14 October 1999, lot 128;
There acquired by the present collects or.
Unrecorded in period documents, Francesco Bossi was first isolated as an artistic personality by G. de Logu.(1) Bossi was a native of Este and appears to have been inspired by the detailed trompe l'oeil still lifes of Sebastiano Lazzari.
1. G. De Logu, "Francesco Bossi, tutto inedito," in Emporium, 1964, p. 205-210.