LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

37.48 in. (95.20 cm.) (height) by 45.47 in. (115.50 cm.) (width)

Literature:

L.J. Slatkes in Dopo Caravaggio: Bartolomeo Manfredi e la Manfrediana Methodus, exhibition catalogue, Cremona 1987, p. 100, under cat. no. 16 (as circa 1623);. B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged by L. Vertova, Turin 1989, vol. I, p. 53;. M.G. Aurigemma, "Gherardo, Enrico, Teodoro ed altri simili," in Lasino iconoclasta. Seicento olanadese; propo ste di lettura, problemi di metodo e di interpretazione, Rome 1993, p. 48;. D.P. Weller, Sinners & Saints: Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers, exhibition catalogue, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1998, p. 162, note 5, under cat. no. 28;. E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres.., 4th edition, Paris 1999, vol. I, p. 599;. P. Schoon and S. Parlberg, Greek Gods and Heroes in the Age of Rubens and Rembrandt, exhibition catalogue, Athens and Dordrecht 2000-2001, p. 242;. S. Macioe, "Caravaggio and the Role of Classical Models," in The Rediscovery of Antiquity; The Role of the Artist, Copenhagen 2003, p. 440;. E. Bénézit, Dictionary of Artists, Paris 2006, vol. I, p. 915;. L.J. Slatkes and W. Franits, The Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen 1588-1629, Amsterdam and Philadelphia 2007, p. 250, under cat. no. R55;. W. Franits, The Paintings of Dirck van Baburen, ca. 1592/93-1624. Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam and Philadelphia 2013, pp. 115-116, cat. A19, reproduced pl. 19.

Provenance:

Private collection, New York;. Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's,,12 January 1989, lot 63;. Where purchased by Dr. Hilary Koprowski.