Description
For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 314, p. 442.
Provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 229, as Portrait of the Artist's Mother, by Caravaggio]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Transcription] On reverse of the canvas: Ritratto della Madre di Michel Angiolo da Caravaggio fatto da Lui stesso; [Transcription] On the stretcher: dell...dre del M A da Caravagio della Gal. Giustiniani
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
