Still Life with Bread, Salami, and Nuts

Giacomo Ceruti

about 1750–1760

Oil on paper laid down on canvas, Oil, Paper, Canvas

J. Paul Getty Museum

Ceruti depicts the ingredients of a meal arranged on a wooden table. The painter includes a piece of bread and salami, some nuts, a knife and pewter plate, accompanied by a glass and wine carafe. The shadowed side of the carafe bears the initials of the artist (G.C.). Salerno, Luigi. Nuovi studi sulla natura morta italiana (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 1989), p. 156.