Glassware on a Marble Table
by RECCO, Giuseppe, Oil on canvas, 89 x 113 cm
Giuseppe Recco had a very extensive high-quality production, characterized by marked cultural eclecticism ranging from the Spanish still-life genre to those of Northern Europe and Rome, and by uncommon iconographic versatility. After kitchen still-lifes, compositions with fish and shellfish, bouquets and underbrush paintings, assemblies of fruit and game, tables laid with food and sweets, and vanitas paintings, in the 1670s he tried his hand at a distinctive, extremely original and sophisticated genre: displays of archeological findings, ceramics, earthenware and, above all, glassware and crystal. The canvas in Warsaw is one of the finest examples of the latter genre.
Displayed on a beveled grey marble table is a collection of valuable Murano, Catalonian and “fa�on de Venise” glassware in different shapes and sizes. The delicate goblets, cups, vases, cruets and fruit stands are portrayed with lucid realism and impeccable accuracy.