Study after Caravaggio's 'The Cardsharps' with color notes. Artist: Anonymous, Italian; After Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian, Milan or Caravaggio 1571-1610 Porto Ercole). Dimensions: sheet: 5 7/8 x 6 7/8 in. (15 x 17.5 cm). Date: 1600-1700.This powerfully rendered scene of Cardsharps by a game table is based on a composition by Caravaggio of the same subject (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth), painted about 1595-1600, but is not an exact reprise of the painting. The sheet includes at upper right a separate, summary sketch of the head of the same young man, who sits by the table at right in the more fully developed main scene. The drawings on the sheet are done with an unusually expressive handling of the pen and very bold chiaroscuro, qualities that indicate that this was from a sheepish copyist of Caravaggio. The sheet is inscribed at bottom right in pen and the similar color ink as the drawing, "calzoni rossi con striscie gialle" (red pantaloons with yellow stripes). The fi

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Study after Caravaggio's 'The Cardsharps' with color notes. Artist: Anonymous, Italian; After Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian, Milan or Caravaggio 1571-1610 Porto Ercole). Dimensions: sheet: 5 7/8 x 6 7/8 in. (15 x 17.5 cm). Date: 1600-1700.This powerfully rendered scene of Cardsharps by a game table is based on a composition by Caravaggio of the same subject (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth), painted about 1595-1600, but is not an exact reprise of the painting. The sheet includes at upper right a separate, summary sketch of the head of the same young man, who sits by the table at right in the more fully developed main scene. The drawings on the sheet are done with an unusually expressive handling of the pen and very bold chiaroscuro, qualities that indicate that this was from a sheepish copyist of Caravaggio. The sheet is inscribed at bottom right in pen and the similar color ink as the drawing, "calzoni rossi con striscie gialle" (red pantaloons with yellow stripes). The fi

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