ANTONIO PONCE (maniera di) Lot n° 16

(Valladolid, 1608 - after 1662 ?) Still life with vegetables, cherries and vases Oil on canvas, 61X95 cm Antonio Ponce was apprenticed to the great still life painter Juan van der Harmen y León and his style is particularly noticeable in the early compositions. These are characterized by dark backgrounds and with the different elements placed in an orderly and symmetrical manner. As his career progressed, however, he began to develop his own stylistic identity by modulating the luminosity and conceiving more informal compositions. The compositions under examination reflect ideations datable to the middle of the seventeenth century for the ability to give the subjects a greater naturalness. Reference bibliography: W. B. Jordan, Spanish Still Life in the Golden Age, 1600-1650, exhibition catalogue Fort Worth, 1985, p. 175, fig. IX.7