FOLLOWER OF MICHELANGELO DA MERISI, CALLED IL CARAVAGGIO

Lot 202
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Lot 202 | FOLLOWER OF MICHELANGELO DA MERISI, CALLED IL CARAVAGGIO
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FOLLOWER OF MICHELANGELO DA MERISI, CALLED IL CARAVAGGIO

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas

oil on canvas

40 7⁄8 x 55 in. (103.8 x 139.7 cm.)





Provenance

(Probably) Acquired in Italy in circa 1850 by the great-grandfather of the following,

Anonymous sale [The Property of a Nobleman]; Christie's, London, 11 December 1987, lot 132, as after Caravaggio, when acquired by the present owner.



Literature

N. Ivanoff, A proposito dell'Incredulita di San Tommaso del Caravaggio, Arte Lombarda, 3737, anno. 17, 1972, pp. 71-2 and illustrated pp. 106-9, figs. 3-9, as Caravaggio(?).

A.E.Pérez Sánchez, Caravaggio y el naturalismo español, exhibition catalogue, Seville, 1973, under no. 6.

A. Moir, Caravaggio and his copyists, New York, 1976, p. 90, no. 18s.

M. Cinotti, 'Michelangelo Merisi detto il Caravaggio, Tutte le opere', in I pittori bergamaschi dal XIII a XIX secolo: Il Seicento, Bergamo, 1983, p. 490.

M. Marini, 'Caravaggio e i suoi 'doppi'. Il problema della possibili collaborazioni', Artibus Et Historiae, no. 8, 1983, pp. 136 and 146, and illustrated, p. 134, fig. 30, and p. 138, figs. 39 and 40, as 'Caravaggio and Collaborator'.

J.T. Spike, Caravaggio, New York and London, 2001, p. 160, no. 12.

J.T. Spike, Caravaggio, New York and London, 2010, second revised edition, p. 210, no. 14.

B. Savina, Caravaggio tra originali e copie, Collezionismo e mercato dell'arte a Roma nel primo Seicento, Foligno, 2013, p. 126, VII, n. 3, as a seventeenth century copy after Caravaggio.

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