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Boy with a carafe of flowers
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Follower of Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio, 18th or 19th century
Boy with a carafe of flowers
oil on canvas, unlined
canvas: 25 ⅞ by 20 ¼ in.; 65.7 by 51.5 cm.
framed: 31 ½ by 25 ⅝ in.; 80.1 by 65 cm.
The present painting is an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century copy of a Caravaggesque composition known in several versions, the prime of which is generally regarded as the painting in Atlanta's High Museum of Art (inv. no. 58.1).1 While some scholars consider that painting a reflection of a lost original by Caravaggio, others assert it the composition is inspired by several early works by the artist, in particular his Boy bitten by a lizard in Florence's Roberto Longhi Foundation.2
1 For further discussion of the Atlanta painting and its relation to other versions of the composition, see R. Spear, "A Note on Caravaggio's 'Boy with a Vase of Roses'," in Burlington Magazine vol. 113 (August 1971), pp. 470-473.
2 Another autograph version of the composition is in London's National Gallery (inv. no. NG6504).
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