Artist:
Michelangelo Merisi, gen. Caravaggio (1571 Mailand - 1610 Porto Ercole) DNB
Time:
around 1603
Object Name:
Painting
Culture:
Caravaggio and Caravaggesque painting
Material/technology:
Canvas
Copyright:
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.:
Gemäldegalerie, 147
Provenance:
Question of patron and original use still open; 1607 testified by Frans Pourbus the Younger in Naples in possession of Louis Finson and Abraham Vinck; 1617 to Amsterdam; bought by a society of artists (among others P. P. Rubens, Jan Brueghel the Elder, H. v. Balen) for the Dominican Church in Antwerp; 1781 Joseph II visited the church and the painting was given to him; 1786 to Vienna