CIRCLE OF MICHELANGELO MERISI DA CARAVAGGIO (MILAN 1571-1610 PORTO ERCOLE)

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£ 262 500
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07.07.2022 19:00UTC +01:00
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Los 21 | CIRCLE OF MICHELANGELO MERISI DA CARAVAGGIO (MILAN 1571-1610 PORTO ERCOLE)
CIRCLE OF MICHELANGELO MERISI DA CARAVAGGIO (MILAN 1571-1610 PORTO ERCOLE)

The Cardsharps: I Bari

oil on canvas, formerly laid on panel

41 1⁄4 x 52 in. (104.7 x 132.2 cm.)

in a mid-eighteenth-century English carved, gilded and pierced frame





Provenance

(Possibly) Exported from Rome by Christopher Norton in 1769, see infra.

Surgeon Captain William Glossop Thwaytes (d.1965), Maulds Meaburn, near Penrith, and by inheritance to the following,

Lancelot Thwaytes (b.1961); Sotheby's Olympia, London, 5 December 2006, lot 424, as 'Follower of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio'.



Literature

D. Benati, 'Caravaggio a Forli'; M. Gregori, 'Un altro autografo dei Bari di Caravaggio'; M. Marini,' "Tre giocatori del Caravaggio, quadro annerito e patito", da Roma a Londra nel 1769'; T.M. Schneider, 'll materiale pittorico, il suo modo di applicazione e il perché delle "incisioni" nei dipinti di Caravaggio'; and D. Bussolari, 'Relazione tecnica', in I "Bari" della collezione Mahon, exhibition catalogue, Forli, 2008, passim, figs. 3, 5-22, 24-33 and 35-8.

T. Foakes, Treasures of the Gate, Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of the Order of St John, London, 2019, pp. 88-89.

R.E. Spear, Caravaggio’s Cardsharps on Trial: Thwaytes v. Sotheby’s, London, 2020.



Exhibited

Trapani, Museo Regionale Conti Agostino Pepoli, Caravaggio, L'immagine del divino’, 14 December 2007-14 March 2009.

Forli, Museo San Domenico, I "Bari" della collezione Mahon, 5 April-22 June 2008.

Cento, Pinacoteca Civica, July 2008-May 2012, on long-term loan.

London, Museum of the Order of St. John, January 2013-June 2021, on long-term loan.
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