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Portrait of an Elderly Woman

Italian (Painter)
ca. 1610 (Renaissance)
oil on canvas
(Renaissance Europe )

For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 314, p. 442.

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[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

Provenance
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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.

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Geographies

Italy, Rome (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 17 3/4 × W: 13 1/4 × D: 3/4 in. (45.1 × 33.7 × 1.9 cm) (no frame)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

37.1113

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  • Wednesday—Sunday: 10 a.m.—5 p.m.
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600 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD
21201

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410-547-9000

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