MICHELANGELO MERISI, CALLED CARAVAGGIO
Portrait of Francesco Barberini, c. 1603–1604
Oil on canvas
122 x 95 cm;
48 x 37 3/8 in.
48 x 37 3/8 in.
Provenance
Collection of Maffeo Barberini, Rome by 1623;Barberini descendants;
Corsini collection, Florence by 1858, after the marriage between Anna Barberini Colonna and Tommaso Corsini;
Corsini descendants.
Exhibitions
Rome, Palazzo Barberini, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, L’immagine sovrana. Urbano VIII e i Barberini, 18 March 2023–30 July 2023, no. 2.Literature
S. Schütze, Kardinal Maffeo Barberini, später Papst Urban VIII, und die Entstehung des römischen Hochbarock, München 2007, p. 153 (as Nicodemo Ferrucci);
C. Hess in A. Bacchi (ed), Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture, exh. catalogue, Los Angeles 2008, pp. 125-127 (as Nicodemo Ferrucci);
K. Christiansen, in G. Papi (ed), Caravaggio e caravaggeschi a Firenze, exh. catalogue, Livorno 2010, pp. 100-102 (as anonymous painter, before the restoration);
S. Schütze, in M. Cicconi, F. Gennari Santori and S. Schütze (eds), L’immagine sovrana. Urbano VIII e i Barberini, exh. cat., Roma 2023, pp. 160-61 (as anonymous painter, late sixteenth century).