812 - Antonio Rudolphi, Large still life with a lobster and fruit, circa 1900

Antonio Rudolphi, Large still life with a lobster and fruit, circa 1900 Oil on canvas, signed in red lower left A. Rudolphi, circa 1900. Large sumptuous still life in the tradition of the Dutch Baroque still life: on a wooden table with a white cloth draped in rich folds a brilliant red lobster on a round dish, beside it opened oysters and a cut lemon, behind them dark blue grapes with autumnal vine leaves, a tall silver goblet with a bossed bowl and a silver two-handled dish with peaches, at the front right a lemon and fruit on the cloth. Dark interior ground with a suggested curtain, the light falling from the left. Condition commensurate with age, losses to the paint layer, a 3 cm tear in the centre, backed. Image 65 x 95.5 cm (h x w), gilt cavetto moulding, frame with knocks, frame width 6 cm. Still lifes of fruit and lobster of this kind were produced as decorative dining room pictures after Baroque models.