ATTRIBUTED TO ELENA RICCO (NAPLES 1654-1715) Fish and copper cauldron. Oil on canvas. 41 x 61 cm. Repainting and minor restorations. Provenance : Former collection of Dr. X (Paris). A certificate of authenticity dated December 14, 1964 from Curt Benedict stating that the still life with fish "is a characteristic work by the Neapolitan painter Giuseppe Recco (1634 - 1695)". The composition reproduced above can be compared with those by Elena Recco in the Musée d'Aix - en - Provence, Poissons, rougets dans un chaudron de cuivre jaune, and with that belonging to a private collection reproduced in Roberto Middione's notice, La natura morta italiana, scientific direction Federico Zeri, Tome II, Elena Recco, n° 1101 (Electa 1989).