Still life of Fruit and Flowers Frame:natural This monochrome oil-sketch came at

This monochrome oil-sketch came at a relatively late stage of preparation and is a dynamic study of light and shadow

while this painting could have been made for a different patron

He holds up a coin to buy a glass of gin from the woman seated opposite

focussing on the buildings between the Calle del Traghetto and Rio dele Ostreghe

Still life of Fruit and Flowers Frame:natural This monochrome oil-sketch came atSoreau was born near Frankfurt. He may have spent some time in Antwerp as his work seems to depend on the example of the Antwerp artist, Jacob van Hulsdonck and as two of his works are painted on Antwerp panels. He occasionally repeated a composition and often reuses the same objects in a new arrangement. The larger bowl and the basket of fruit in this painting reappear in works in the Hamburger Kunsthalle and in the Muse du Petit Palais, Paris.