Spanish school of the 17th century. Circle of TOMÁS YEPES (Valencia, ca. 1610-1674). "Still life of fruit". Oil on canvas. Re-drawn. With woodworm on the stretcher. Repainting on the painting. Measurements: 57,5 x 67 cm; 68,5 x 79 cm (frame). Tomás Hiepes is currently considered the most outstanding still life painter of the Valencian Baroque and, in fact, it is to him that we owe the greatest interest in this genre in the Valencian sphere. Although he was born around 1610, Yepes entered the second half of the century, and in fact continued to work until the 1970s, although he did not evolve much; in his work we do not see the dynamism of Arellano's flowers, as he continues to arrange them in a radial, geometric manner, in the manner of the early Spanish Baroque, as we see in this canvas. The present work continues the precepts of this master of still life painting. His language is characterised by several features that we can observe here: the importance of naturalism, a detailed and precise technique, especially visible in the qualities of the objects, a mainly warm chromatic range, typically Valencian; the influence of the Neapolitan still life in the brightness and sumptuousness of some of the elements and a certain tenebrist character in the lighting. The artist, as Hiepes did in his day, places all the objects in the foreground: the vase with flowers, the fruit bowl with blackberries and figs, the peaches and the small melon. To date we know little biographical information about Tomás Hiepes; his works appear signed between 1642 and 1674, the year of his death, and he developed a still life related to Castile and Italy, although we do not know how this latter influence reached him. His works are now in the Museo del Prado, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Valencia and the Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales in Madrid, among other public and private collections. Dimensions 57,5 x 67 cm; 68,5 x 79 cm (frame).