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Young Artist Working by Lamplight
Young Artist Working by Lamplight

Young Artist Working by Lamplight

Pietro Paolini (Italian (Lucchese), 1603–1681)
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions68.3 x 121.3 cm (26 7/8 x 47 3/4 in.)
Credit LineErnest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession number47.118
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
Provenance1776, possibly Buonvisi collection, Lucca [see note 1]. By 1946, Mrs. Charles T. Tatman, Worcester, MA; 1947, sold by Mrs. Tatman to the MFA for $700 [see note 2]. (Accession Date: February 13, 1947)

NOTES:
[1] Patrizia Giusti Maccari, "Pietro Paolini: pittore lucchese, 1603-1681" (Lucca, 1987), p. 125, cat. no. 40, suggests that this is one of several paintings by Paolini included in the 1776 inventory of the Casa Buonvisi. [2] Accessioned as a work of the North Italian school.
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