Three Beggars

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Location: 
Room 38.2
Artists / Makers / Authorities: 
Giacomo Ceruti Known as "Il Pitocchetto"
Milan, 1698-1767
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Description:

Three characters, two men and a woman of advanced age, dressed in rags, are gathered around a table. The monumental nature of the figures, their far-away expressions, the emptiness of the room, the shades of ochre and grey, all give the work an air removed from that of a simple genre scene. The painting is a protest over the conditions some people suffered, a painting with a social subject matter of the type that flourished in the eighteenth century with the Enlightenment and which sought for a constructive moral lesson. The work was commissioned by the collector Marshal von Schulenberg, who took it to his residence in Berlin.

Painting

1736

130 x 95.5 cm

Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, long-term loan to the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 2004

Inventory number: 

212852-000

Oil on canvas
Century: 18th
Subject: Genre and society
Giacomo Ceruti dit Il Pitocchetto - Tres captaires - 1736
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