Print from steel engraving titled „Le zingare“.

Artist Bartolomeo Manfredi.

Drawn by Bertoli.

Engraved by F. De Fournier.

From “Galerie du Palais Pitti“, Chez Louis Bardi, Florence, 1842.

Notes: Vol. I. Tav. 50.

Bartolomeo Manfredi (baptised 25 August 1582 – 12 December 1622) was an Italian painter, a leading member of the Caravaggisti (followers of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio) of the early 17th century. Manfredi was a successful artist, able to keep his own servant before he was thirty years old, "a man of distinguished appearance and fine behaviour" according to the biographer Giulio Mancini, although seldom sociable. He built his career around easel paintings for private clients, and never pursued the public commissions upon which wider reputations were built, but his works were widely collected in the 17th century and he was considered Caravaggio's equal or even superior. His Mars Chastising Cupid offers a tantalising hint at a lost Caravaggio: the master promised a painting on this theme to Mancini, but another of Caravaggio's patrons, Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, had taken it, and Mancini therefore commissioned Manfredi to paint another for him, which Mancini considered Manfredi's best work.

Approx. image size 27, 9 x 19, 2/47, 3 x 31, 5 cm. Condition: medium.