Boy with a Basket of Fruit [SEP] creator
Boy with a Basket of Fruit
Boy with a Basket of Fruit, c.1593, is a painting generally ascribed to Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, currently in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
The painting dates from the time when Caravaggio, newly arrived in Rome from his native Milan, was making his way in the competitive Roman art world. The model was his friend and companion, the Sicilian painter Mario Minniti, at about 16 years old. The work was in the collection of Giuseppe Cesari, the Cavaliere
wall; wears brown hat, white-striped shirt, blue overalls, tan shoes. Boy is drawing on box)
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