Allegory of Autumn
by GARZI, Luigi, Oil on canvas, 95 x 134 cm
This painting is the result of a collaboration between a figure painter influenced by Carlo Maratti and a northern European still-life painter in the circle of Abraham Brueghel. The figures, painted prior to the still-life, are attributed to Luigi Garzi, while the voluptuous still-life of fruits and flowers to Franz Werner von Tamm, who was in Rome from 1685 and remained in Italy until 1701.