Fruit Piece
Michele Pace del Campidoglio (Rome c.1610 - Rome c.1670)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1650 - 1670
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
991 x 1346 mm (39 x 53 in)
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485045
Caption
The only still-life painting in the collection at Petworth, it was acquired by Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Somerset who had marreid Elizabeth Percy, granddaughter of the 10th Earl of Northumberland in 1682. This could have been perhaps placed above the chimneypiece as a centrepiece in Petworth's first picture gallery, what is now the Red Room.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Fruit Piece, by Michele Pace del Campidoglio (Rome c.1610 - Rome c.1670), circa 1650. A still life of grapes, pears, pomegranates, peaches and a cut gourd.
Provenance
Acquired by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662-1748); in the Egremont House 1764 inventory and thence by descent; on loan from the Egremont Private Collection
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection
Makers and roles
Michele Pace del Campidoglio (Rome c.1610 - Rome c.1670) , artist
References
Remastered - Bosch to Bellotto: An Exhibition of Petworth's European Old Masters (exh cat) (Andrew Loukes) Petworth House, West Sussex, 9 January - 6 March 2016, cat. 48, p. 18