Attributed to Franz Godin, called Francesco Codino (Active Hanau and Frankfurt circa 1621 – 1629), Still life with shellfish, fr

Attributed to Franz Godin, called Francesco Codino (Active Hanau and Frankfurt circa 1621 – 1629), Still life with shellfish, fruit and sweets on a table. Photo Sotheby's.

oil on canvas; 42 by 53 cm.; 16 1/2 by 20 7/8 in. Estimation 15,000 — 20,000 GBP

Litterature: P.T. Grandi in G. & U. Bocchi (eds.), Naturaliter: Nuovi contributi alla natura morta in Italia settentrionale e Toscana tra XVII e XVIII secolo, Florence 1998, p. 23, cat. no. 21, reproduced p. 35, fig. 21 (as Codino);
G. Bott, Die Stillebenmaler Soreau, Binoit, Codino und Marrell in Hanau und Frankfurt 1600-1650, Hannau 2001, p. 215, cat. no. WV.C.8 (as Codino).

The picture is a variant of Peter Binoit’s signed prototype in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin (inv. no. 294).1 Four further versions have been attributed to Binoit's pupil Codino, including a signed picture sold in these Rooms, 27 March 1963, lot 80.2 It should be noted that Fred G. Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie believes that the four unsigned variants ascribed to Codino, including the present work, are likely to be copies. We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie  for his assistance in cataloguing this lot on the basis of photographs.