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Formerly thought to be by the Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, this painting is now attributed with certainty to the Lombard painter Giacomo Ceruti and is datable to the 1720s, when he was active in Brescia. Ceruti was an accomplished portraitist but also enjoyed considerable success as a painter of genre and low-life scenes – beggars, street-sellers and vagabonds (‘pitocchi’ in Italian) – which earned him his nickname ‘il Pitocchetto’.
Title
Portrait of a Priest
Date
early 1730s
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 99.7 x W 78.1 cm
Accession number
NG4205
Acquisition method
Bought, 1926
Work type
Painting
