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Boy Bitten by a Mouse

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Artist
Follower of Caravaggio  (1571–1610)  wikidata:Q42207 q:it:Caravaggio
 
Follower of Caravaggio
Alternative names

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio,
Birth name: Michelangelo Merisi

Italiano: Michelangelo Merisi, detto il Caravaggio
Description Italian painter
Date of birth/death 29 September 1571 Edit this at Wikidata 18 July 1610 / 1610 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Milan Porto Ercole
Work period 1593 - 1610
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1775,Q42207
Title
Boy Bitten by a Mouse
label QS:Len,"Boy Bitten by a Mouse"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Boy Bitten by a Mouse

This work, probably executed circa 1620, draws inspiration from Caravaggio's Boy Bitten by a Lizard at the National Gallery, London (inv. no. NG6504). The popularity of Caravaggio's early Roman paintings led to a proliferation of copies and adaptations. Among the diverse interpretations of this subject type is Boy Bitten by a Crayfish at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg (inv. no. 1285), a work that has been variously attributed to a range of seventeenth-century painters and is today associated with Pensionate del Saraceni.

The young boy, eyes wide with shock and mouth agape, screams in agony as a mouse bites his index finger. The work might be read as an allegory for pain: the boy who had previously been torturing the mouse is subsequently bitten, thereby having to endure the same type of pain that he has just been inflicting.

In addition to the present painting, two other versions of this composition are known: one in the Borromeo collection, Isola Bella, and another formerly in the Mameli collection, Rome, and sold (as Roman School, early 17th century) at auction (Vienna, Dorotheum, 10 November 2020, lot 86).
Date circa 1620
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 25 ⅝ by 20 ¼ in.; 65.1 by 51.4 cm.
Object history
  • Private collection, Florence, by 2017;
  • Thereafter acquired.
  • Auction: New York, Sotheby's, 1 February 2024, Master Paintings Part II (sale # N11442), lot 413
References F. Scaletti, Caravaggio, Catalogo ragionato delle opere autografe, attribuite e controverse, Naples 2017, vol. II, p. 65, reproduced in black and white fig. 66 (as caravaggesque artist; incorrectly identified as the Mameli version).
Source/Photographer Sotheby's

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