RECCO, Giovan Battista
(b. ca. 1615, Napoli, d. ca. 1660, Napoli)

Still-Life with Apples, Cabbage, Parsnip and Lettuce

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Oil on canvas, 87 x 110 cm
Private collection

Recco was the leading still-life expert in Naples in the mid 1600s, but his exact dates are unknown as he disappeared from records soon after his first dated still-life appeared in 1653. Many Neapolitan artists died from the plague in 1656, and Recco's last bank payment was received that year, so he may have been one of them.




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