17th CENTURY ITALIAN SCHOOL, AFTER CARAVAGGIO THE... Lot 29

17th CENTURY ITALIAN SCHOOL, AFTER CARAVAGGIO THE INCREDULITY OF SAINT THOMAS Canvas Without frame Restorations 17th century Italian school, after Caravaggio, canvas, without frame, restorations 109,5 x 124 cm - 43,1 x 48,8 in. Our canvas is a reworking of one of Caravaggio's earliest masterpieces housed in the Sans-Souci Palace, Potsdam (canvas, 107 x 146 cm; Cf. Sébastien Schütze: Caravaggio, the Complete Works, 2015; Cat. 28, repr.). Commissioned by Vincenzo Giustiniani and painted in Rome around 1600, this painting was presented in a black baguette with gold motifs when it was inventoried at the Giustiniani home in 1638. It arrived in Prussia in 1815, after the dispersion of this Italian collection.