A Man Cutting Tobacco
1660s
Artist, Neapolitan, 1613 - 1699


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 33
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Patrons' Permanent Fund, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, and New Century Fund
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Dimensions
overall: 103.19 × 90.49 cm (40 5/8 × 35 5/8 in.)
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Accession
2023.19.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Sale, Sotheby's London, 13 December 2001, no. 48); (Jean-Luc Baroni, London); purchased 2002 by private collection, New York; (sale, Sotheby's New York, 26 January 2023, no. 1); purchased 2023 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2012
Scriberras, Keith. Mattia Preti: The Triumphant Manner. Vellatta: 2012: 58-59, 69, reproduced in reverse, fig. 91, 450, n. 150.
2020
Sciberras, Keith. Mattia Preti: Life and Works. Valletta, 2020: 178, fig. 173, 293, cat. no. 313.
2023
Straussman-Pflanzer, Eve. "Gifts and Acquisitions." _Art for the Nation_no. 67 (Fall 2023): 24-25, repro. 24.