Caravaggio’s Earliest Known Work – Boy Peeling Fruit
- August 13, 2014
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The earliest known work by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is Boy Peeling Fruit. The painting was created in Caravaggio’s first years in Rome and is dated c.1592-1593. Several copies of the painting exist, most copies derived from Caravaggio’s original, but it is believed that the original is now part of the British Royal Collection. Many of the copies have been labeled as being created by Caravaggio. It is unclear exactly when the painting was created. Some believe it might have been painted while Caravaggio stayed with Monsignor Pandulfo Pucci in the Palazzo Colonna or perhaps later when he was working for Giuseppe Cesari. Boy Peeling Fruit would …..