Referring to the Neapolitan school, the still life in question has close stylistic similarities with the works of Gaspare Lopez, protagonist of 18th century Neapolitan painting in the wake of Andrea Belvedere and French florists.

 The work documents very well the expressive qualities of the painter who is able to create a sequence of similar compositions without falling into the banality of the illustrative replica, demonstrating a descriptive sensibility of considerable visual impact. In comparison, we can cite Still Life with Flowers, already present on the Milan antique market and published by Alberto Cottino (see Cottino, 2010, p.16, fig. 16).

Reference bibliography:

B. De Dominici, Lives of the Neapolitan painters, sculptors and architects, 1742-45, (Anastatic reprint of 1979), Naples 1742-1745, pp. 576-577

L. Salerno, The Italian Still Life 1560-1805, Rome 1984, pp. 249-251

R. Middione, Gaspare Lopez, in La Natura morta in Italia, edited by F. Porzio and F. Zeri, Milan 1989, II, pp. 951 953

A. Cottino, Gaspare Lopez. Painter of princes and gentlemen, Genoa 2010