LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

48.74 in. (123.80 cm.) (height) by 69.02 in. (175.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Boston, Boston Athenaeum, 1833, no. 9 (as by Caravaggio);. Boston, Boston Athenaeum, 1837, no. 116 (as by Caravaggio).

Literature:

R.F. Perkins and W.J. Gavin, eds., Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index, 1827-1874, Cambridge 1980, pp. 30, 285;. S. Causa, La strategia dell'attenzione : pittori a Napoli nel primo Seicento, Naples 2007, p. 41, reproduced fig. 7 (as Azzolino).

Provenance:

J.W. Brett, 1833;. E. Dwight, 1837, by whom given to an institution where it remained until the early 1990s;. Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1996, lot 174 (as by Pietro Novelli);. There purchased by Dr. Hilary Koprowski.