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| Title | Fruit Garland Encircling a Relief | |
| Collection | Holburne Museum of Art, Bath | |
| Artist | Nuzzi, Mario (Italian painter, ca.1603-1673) | |
| Date Earliest | about 1610 | |
| Date Latest | 1673 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | The Roman painter Mario Nuzzi was known as 'Mario de Fiori' because of his talent for painting still lifes, particularly garlands of flowers. This garland of fruit, surrounding a now shadowy sculpted bust in a niche, seems to be the work of Mario, and bears a signature in the bottom left-hand corner. The fruits are, clockwise from the top: strawberries, yellow plums, white and red grapes, medlars, gooseberries, apricots, cherries, raspberries, maize, a lemon, nuts and white peaches. | |
| Current Accession Number | A20 | |
| Inscription | front ll 'Mario' and indecipherable suffix '[Nuzzi?]' | |
| Subject | still life | |
| Measurements | 68.4 x 55.9 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Miss Mary Anne Barbara Holburne 1882. | |
| Provenance | Sir Thomas William Holburne, by 1867-74; by descent to Mary Anne Barbara Holburne (1802-1882), 1874. | |
| Publications | Wright, C., Old Master Paintings in Britain: An Index of Continental Old Master Paintings Executed before c.1800 in Public Collections in the United Kingdom, London, 1976, p. 63. | |
| Notes | Previous attributions: Catalogue of the Pictures and Library, Engravings, Etchings and Miniatures, Belonging to Sir Thomas William Holburne, Bart., Bath, 1867, cat. no. 248: 'Mario Nuzzi' (dining room); Catalogue of the Holburne of Menstrie Art Museum by W.Chaffers, London, 1887, cat. no. 1322: ‘Mario Nuzzi'; F. Möckler, Holburne of Menstrie Art Museum, Bath, 1902, cat. no. 27: 'Mario Nuzzi'; remarks on the paintings by Ayerst. H. Buttery, 1906, in the form of annotations to the 1902 catalogue: 'fairly good - M.Nuzzi'; Notes by Hugh Blaker, Curator 1905-1913, cat. no. 20: 'unknown'; hand written register of paintings, watercolours and miniatures, giving inventory numbers with ‘A' prefix still in use, by G. Holden, Curator 1917-1926, compiled shortly after move to Sydney Hotel, cat. no. 20: 'Nuzzie'; The Holburne of Menstrie Museum Catalogue, Part I: Pictures, Bath, 1927, cat. no. 89: 'Elliger (Flemish School)'; The Holburne of Menstrie Museum Catalogue, Part I: Pictures, Bath, 2nd edition, 1936, cat. no. 64: 'Mario Nuzzi'; Jones: 'Jacques van Bosch (1636-1676)'; 1976: 'Mario Nuzzi'; Fred Meier, through Richard Charlton-Jones (Sotheby's), 2004: Cornelis Huynen (Flemish). | |
| Rights Owner | © The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath | |
| Author | Amina Wright | |