Spanish school of the seventeenth century. Circle of TOMÁS YEPES (Valencia, ca. 1610-1674). "Still life of fruits". Oil on canvas. Relined. With woodworm in the frame. 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, to him we owe the greatest interest in this genre in the Valencian area. Although he was born around 1610, Yepes already enters the second half of the century, and in fact he continues working until the seventies, although he does not evolve too much; in his work we do not see the dynamism of Arellano's flowers, since he continues to arrange them in a radial, geometric way, in the manner of the first Spanish Baroque, as we see in this canvas. The present work continues the precepts of this master of still life. His language is characterized by several features that we can observe here: importance of naturalism, detailed and precise technique especially visible in the qualities of the objects, mainly warm chromatic range, typically Valencian; influence of the Neapolitan still life in the brightness and sumptuousness of some 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 or the small melon. Today we know little biographical information about Tomás Hiepes; his works appear signed between 1642 and 1674, the year of his death, and he develops a still life related to Castile and Italy, although we do not know how this last influence reached him. His works are currently preserved in the Prado Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia and the Monastery of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid, among other public and private collections. Dimensions 57,5 x 67 cm; 68,5 x 79 cm (frame).