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Old Master Paintings & 19th Century Art

Monday 23 November 2020, 04:00 PM • Rome

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Seguace di Michelangelo Merisi, detto il Caravaggio

Boy peeling a fruit

Estimate

€ 1.500 - 2.500

Sold

€ 7.620

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

oil on canvas
62 x 51.5 cm

Provenance

Private collection, Perugia; and purchased in 1960 by Professor Valentino Martinelli, Rome.

Literature

F.F. Mancini, La Collezione Valentino Martinelli: dalla casa al museo, in Raccolte della città di Perugia. Collezione Valentino Martinelli, a cura di F.F. Mancini, Perugia 2002, pp.15-19, figg. 3a-3h
The work derives from a lost prototype of Caravaggio, of which numerous contemporary copies are known. According to the study carried out by Professor Martinelli, and reported in the article cited in the bibliography, the canvas is still referable to the seventeenth century.