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 <objecttitle>Still life of Fish with Char, Bass, Rockfish, sea
 Bream and Shells</objecttitle>
 <artistname>Giovan Battista Ruoppolo (Naples 1629 -
 1693)</artistname>
 <shortdescription>Oil on canvas, 101 x 70,5
 cm.&lt;br&gt;</shortdescription>
 <longdescription>&lt;b&gt;Provenance b Monte Carlo, collection
 Francesco Queirazza.&lt;br br b&gt;Literature b Giuseppe De Vito,
 “Paolo Porpora e la nascita di un genere a Napoli”, i&gt;Ricerche
 sul’ 600 napoletano [1999], i&gt;Naples, 2000, pp. 8-41, fig.
 XVI.&lt;br br&gt;Bernardo de Dominici, in his i&gt;Life i of
 Giovan Battista Ruoppolo, a key figure in Neopolitan still lifes,
 labels him a student of Paolo Porpora, an artist esteemed by the
 biographer to be a brilliant painter of still lifes. According to
 De Dominici, Ruoppolo followed in his master’s footsteps, in his
 ability to “vedere ogni cosa dal naturale”, particularly in the