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Source Description
The young beggars play musical instruments and sing in the street of an Italian town. Their poverty is realistic, as are their surroundings. While in the later 1600s there was increasing interest in the depiction of the poor, often for their "picturesque" qualities, in paintings to be purchased by the affluent, the particular approach and style seen here are characteristic of the artist, Pasquale de' Rossi (1641-1725). The artist primarily worked in Rome. The painting was at one time thought to be Spanish and attributed to Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio (1635-1700) or Bartolomé Estéban Murillo (1617-1682). For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue, "Italian Paintings in the Walters Art Gallery," vol. II, no. 337, p. 462.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
16165
label
Ambulant Musicians
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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16165
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Ambulant Musicians
description
The young beggars play musical instruments and sing in the street of an Italian town. Their poverty is realistic, as are their surroundings. While in the later 1600s there was increasing interest in the depiction of the poor, often for their "picturesque" qualities, in paintings to be purchased by the affluent, the particular approach and style seen here are characteristic of the artist, Pasquale de' Rossi (1641-1725). The artist primarily worked in Rome. The painting was at one time thought to be Spanish and attributed to Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio (1635-1700) or Bartolomé Estéban Murillo (1617-1682). For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue, "Italian Paintings in the Walters Art Gallery," vol. II, no. 337, p. 462.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 494, as Murillo]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1700 (Baroque)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
34.8
height
25.7
dimensionsRaw
Painted surface H: 13 11/16 x W: 10 1/8 in. (34.8 x 25.7 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Seal] On reverse of fabric support is a red seal with a coat of arms and inscription: MONUMENTI SOPRAINTENDENZA
med
oil on canvas
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2093
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BAR
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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