Lot 41TP
Baldassare de Caro(Naples circa 1689-1750)A huntsman holding his gun, with his dogs beside a dead boar, a deer, hares and birds before a wooded landscape, a staghunt and a view of the Bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius beyond
5 July 2023, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£12,000 - £18,000
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Baldassare de Caro (Naples circa 1689-1750)
A huntsman holding his gun, with his dogs beside a dead boar, a deer, hares and birds before a wooded landscape, a staghunt and a view of the Bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius beyond
signed 'B*e**ro' (lower right)
oil on canvas
144.5 x 195cm (56 7/8 x 76 3/4in).
signed 'B*e**ro' (lower right)
oil on canvas
144.5 x 195cm (56 7/8 x 76 3/4in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Private Collection, Sweden, from whom acquired by the present owner
Baldassare de Caro is best known for specialising in hunting still lifes and the present painting is typical of his output. Having trained in the studio of Andrea Belvedere (Naples 1652-1732), de Caro established himself as one of the leading artists of this genre, taking his inspiration from Flemish painters such as Frans Snyders, Jan Fyt and David de Conink. These painters were enthusiastically collected by the Neapolitan elite and, according to De Dominici, King Charles III of Spain after his accession to the throne in 1735.
The present work is the result of a collaboration between Baldassare de Caro, the still life painter, and Paolo de Matteis (Piano del Cilento, Salerno 1662 –1728 Naples) who painted the figure. We are grateful to Riccardo Lattuada for confirming the attribution to de Matteis. The latter artist is known to have owned two pairs of small still-lifes by de Caro, which were recorded in the inventory of the contents of his home after his death.
