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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValerieK, post: 4333806, member: 7360&quot;]I tried an image search and all I came up with was what I think is your painting, listed as &quot;reserved&quot; on an Italian dealer&#039;s website, and it certainly is quite an investment!&nbsp; Just a completely non-expert thought - might it originally have come from a little side chapel in a church, dedicated to some guild of truffle-hunters? Or more likely a painting commissioned for an Italian villa whose owner adored truffles?&nbsp; Truffle hunting seems incredibly important in parts of Italy, and I can imagine some rich landowner having it on his wall, with a youth as a personification of nature offering him truffles?&nbsp; (Or apples, if that instrument is to lever them out of trees.)</p><p>Once you get it in your hands you should be able to decipher the stamp and get on with your research.&nbsp; I think it is a wonderful painting, with an air of tranquillity and a definite personality, which keeps you looking at it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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