About the Artwork
The Fruit Vendor
ca. between 1615 and 1620
Il Pensionante del Saraceni
active ca. 1615-1620
Italian
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 51 1/4 × 38 1/2 inches (130.2 × 97.8 cm) Framed: 57 1/4 × 44 1/8 × 2 5/8 inches (145.4 × 112.1 × 6.7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Edsel B. Ford
36.10
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
possibly February 1644, Duca Francesco Sannesi[o] (Rome, Italy)
1651, heirs of Cardinal Jacopo Sannesi (Rome, Italy). by 1806, Arthur Champernowne, Esq. (London, England)
May 24, 1806, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 27
June 30, 1820, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 61 [as by Caravaggio]
Lord Annandale (England)
February 15, 1832, sold by (George Squibb's, London, England) lot 101 [as by Caravaggio]. possibly ca. 1930, (Art Market, London, England). Count V. P. Zubow (Riga, Latvia)
1935-1936, purchased by (Jacob Heimann, Milan, Italy)
purchased by Edsel B. Ford
1936-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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A Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures now exhibiting in Pall Mall. Exh. cat. London, 1816, p. 16, no. 92. [as by Caravaggio; lent by A. Champernowne.]
Redford, G. Art Sales, 2 vols. London, 1888, vol. 1, p. 118.
Richardson, E.P. "The Fruit Vendor by Caravaggio." Bulletin of the DIA 16, no. 6 (March 1937): pp. 86-91, p. 88.
Scheyer, E. Baroque Painting (gallery guide). Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1937, pp. 6-8 (fig. 1). [as by Caravaggio.]
Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 3 vols. The Hague, 1938-64, vol. 2, no. 12877.
WPA Michigan. Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State. New York, 1941, p. 256.
Longhi, R. "Ultimi studi sul Caravaggio e la sua cerchia." Proporzioni, vol. 1. Florence, 1943, p. 23 (fig. 47). [as by Il Pensionante del Saraceni.]
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, pp. 20-21, no. 453. [as by Caravaggio.]
Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, p. 79 (ill.).
La Mostra del Caravaggio e dei caravaggeschi. Exh. cat., Palazzo Reale. Milan, 1951, p. 79, cat. 136; pl. 99. [as by Pensionante del Saraceni.]
Caravaggio and the Tenebrosi. Exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum. Seattle,1954, cat. 4.
Soehner, H. "Velazquez und Italien: Der Fruchtverkauber." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 18, no. 1 (1955): pp. 9-10, no. 19 (ill.). [as by Pensionante del Saraceni.]
Gilbert, C. "Figures at a Table." John and Mabel Ringling Museum Bulletin 1, no. 1 (1960): no. 3. [as by Saraceni's Lodger.]
Jullian, R. Caravage. Lyon and Paris, 1960, p. 57, no. 52, p. 58, no. 62.
Fêtes de la palette: an exhibition of European paintings and decorative arts from the mid-16th through the mid-19th centuries. Exh. cat., Isaac Delgado Museum of Art. New Orleans, 1962, cat. 58, pl. 15.
Greenleaf, William. From These Beginnings: The Early Philanthropies of Henry and Edsel Ford, 1911–1936. Detroit, 1964, p. 163.
Art in Italy 1600-1700. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, pp. 27-28, cat. 5 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 97 (ill.).
Ottani Cavina, A. Carlo Saraceni. Milan, 1968, pp. 50, 68, no. 48.
Spear, R. Caravaggio and his Followers. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1971, pp. 138-139, cat. 49.
Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 136. [as by Pensionante del Saraceni.]
Spear, R. "Unknown Pictures by the Caravaggisti." Storia dell'arte, no. 14 (1972): p. 158.
Volpe, C. "Annotazioni sulla mostra caravaggesca di Cleveland." Paragone (1972): vol. 23, no. 263, p. 71.
Caravaggio y el naturalisimo Español. Exh. cat., Sala de Armas de los Reales Alcazares. Seville, 1973, cat. 30.
Valentin et les caravagesques français. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1974, pp. 77-78, pl. 80.
Greaves, J. and M. Johnson. "New Findings on Caravaggio's Technique in the Detroit 'Magdalen.'" Burlington Magazine 116 (1974): pp. 564-572, pp. 568 and 571.
Nicolson, B. "Caravaggio and the Caravaggesques: Some Recent Research." Burlington Magazine 116 (1974): p. 611, no. 17.
I Caravaggeschi Francesi. Exh. cat., Villa Medici. Rome, 1973, pp. 75-76.
Marini, M. Io Michelangelo da Caravaggio. Rome, 1974, pp. 469-471.
Spear, R. Caravaggio and His Followers. New York, 1975, p. 228, cat. 49.
Pittura francese nelle collezioni pubbliche fiorentine. Exh. cat., Palazzo Pitti. Florence, 1977, p. 154.
Nicolson, B. The International Caravaggesque Movement: Lists of pictures by Caravaggio and his followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650. Oxford, 1979, p. 78.
Italian Still Life Paintings from Three Centuries. Exh. cat., National Academy of Design, et al. New York, 1983, p. 48 (fig. 15).
France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. Exh. cat., Grand Palais, et al. Paris, 1982, pp. 52, 197, cat. 80 (ill.).
Ottani Cavina, A. "Per il 'Pensionante del Saraceni.'" Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Federico Zeri. Venice, 1984, vol. 2, pp. 608-614, p. 610.
Salerno, L. La natura morta italiana: 1560-1805/Still Life Painting in Italy 1560-1805. Rome, 1984, p. 68.
Previtali, G. "Caravaggio e il suo tempo." Prospettiva 41 (1985): pp. 68-80, p. 76.
The Age of Caravaggio. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte. New York and Naples, 1985, p. 255, cat. 73 (cited) (ill.).
Cottino, A., et al. La natura morta in Italia. Milan, 1989, vol. 2, pp. 686, 718-719 (fig. 852).
Zeri, F., and F. Porzio, eds. La natura morta in Italia, 2 vols. Milan, 1989, vol. II, pp. 718-719 (ill.).
Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 56, 205-206, cat. 24 (ill.). (Japanese text, p. 157).
Nicolson, B. and L. Vertova. Caravaggism in Europe, 2nd ed. Turin, 1990, vol. 1, p. 155.
Papi, G. "Un'apertura sul soggiorno italiano di Jacob van Oost il Vecchio." Studi di Storia dell'Arte 1 (1990): pp. 171-180, pp. 175-176, 178, 193 (fig. 17).
La natura morta al tempo di Caravaggio. Exh. cat., Musei Capitolini. Rome, 1995, p. 166.
De Grazia, D. and E. Garberson, et al. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Oxford, 1996, p. 200; p. 203 notes 13,14; p. 204 note 16 (fig. 1).
Fohr, R. Georges de La Tour Le Maître des nuits. Paris, 1997, p. 24 (ill.).
Brown, B.L., ed. The Genius of Rome, 1592-1623. Exh. cat., Royal Academy and Palazzo Venezia. London and Rome, 2000, p. 61, cat. 15, (ill.).
Gregori, Mina and Johann Georg Prinz von Hohenzollern, eds. Natura Morta Italiana tra Cinquecento e Settecento. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung. Munich, 2002, p. 157.
Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center, Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 11, 32-33 (ill.).
Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, A. and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 142-145, cat. no. 47.
Lemoine, A., Nicolas Régnier (alias Niccolò Renieri) ca. 1588 - 1667. Peintre, collectionneur et marchand d'art. Paris, 2007, p. 46.
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Il Pensionante del Saraceni, The Fruit Vendor, ca. between 1615 and 1620, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edsel B. Ford, 36.10.
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