ABRAHAM BRUEGHEL, att. to (Antwerp 1631 - Naples... Lot 35

ABRAHAM BRUEGHEL, att. to (Antwerp 1631 - Naples 1697) e GIACINTO GIMIGNANI (Pistoia 1606 - Rome 1681) LANDSCAPE WITH ALLEGORY OF SPRING, EMBOSSED VASE WITH FLOWERS, GARLAND AND PUTTI Oil on canvas, 153 x 227 cm. On the basis of the artistic evidence, that of biographers and from the correspondence Brueghel had with Antonio Ruffo, a Sicilian patron and collector, it is clear that the Flemish artist had collaborations with some of the most important interpreters of Roman and Neapolitan painting in the Baroque century, such as Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Courtois, Giacinto Brandi, Carlo Maratta and Luca Giordano. The painting under consideration may constitute an interesting and rare evidence of a collaboration between Abraham Brueghel and Giacinto Gimignani. The layer of dirt, coupled with old restorations not allowing an adequate reading of the work lead us to an attribution of the landscape and flowers to the Flemish artist, while the classical personification of spring and the putti in elegant postures find stylistic correspondences with Gimignani's painting signed 'Venus and Cupid,' already in the antiquarian market and with the painting, also attributed to him, 'Garden of Love,' also already in the Reggio Emilia antiquarian market. CONDITION REPORT Late 19th-century rintelo. Lifting of painting with falls on the high edge adjacent to the frame. A few scattered spots of restoration on the central figure's embodiments, one restoration on her arm in the foreground. A small area of restoration at the apex of the flowers on the left, a vertical line of paint falls and restoration points to the right of the putto at the top. Additional restoration points on the leg of the central figure in the lower right, some color falls at the low edge FRAME Large giltwood frame carved in large palmettes with laurel wreath inner border and dot-and-line outer border, late 17th century