Still Life with Bread, Salami, and Nuts
‘Still Life with Bread, Salami, and Nuts’ is a painting by Giacomo Ceruti from the 1750s. Exhibited in our Lombard exhibition in 2019, it is now in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Provenance
Maria Anna d’Oria Visconti di Modrone (1925–2017), Milan; by gift to
Orietta d’Oria Visconti di Modrone and Huberto Poletti, Milan, by 1986; sold to
Western & British Art, Ltd., 2017; sold to
Moretti Fine Art, Ltd., 2017
with Nicholas Hall, 2019
acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2021 from Moretti Fine Art, Ltd.
Exhibitions
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Natura Morta Italiana tra Cinquecento e Settecento, 6 December 2002–23 February 2003
New York, Nicholas Hall, Faithful to Nature: Eleven Lombard Paintings 1530–1760, 2 November – 23 December 2019
Bibliography
Mina Gregori, Natura Morta Italiana tra Cinquecento e Settecento, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 2002–3, exh. cat. pp. 441–45, reproduced.
Peter Cherry, Luis Meléndez: Still Lifes, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 2004, exh. cat., p. 61, reproduced.
Daniela Tarabra, European Art of the Eighteenth Century, Los Angeles, 2008, p. 242, reproduced.
Gillian Riley, Food in Art: from Prehistory to the Renaissance, London, 2015, p.164, reproduced.
Virginia Brilliant, Faithful to Nature: Eleven Lombard Paintings 1530–1760, New York, exh. cat., 2019, pp. 78–79 and 108–09, reproduced.