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The Card Game

Artist Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti Italian, 1698–1767

Datecirca 1738–1750

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions28 1/2 x 40 3/4 in. (72.4 x 103.5 cm)
Frame: 36 1/2 x 48 3/4 in. (92.7 x 123.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.55

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Provenance"Bruneman" or "Bieneman" [Bierman?] collection; with Paul Wengraf, Arcade Gallery, London by February 8, 1955, (as Neapolitan School); with David M. Koetser, New York; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1957; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.
Published ReferencesG. Testori, Paragone (September 1954), 16, ff.

Michael Levey, Painting in 18th Century Venice (Garden City, NY, 1959), 107-8, 122, 128, illus. fig. 48.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 112, illus. (b-w) 113.

Antonio Morassi, "Giacomo Ceruti detto il 'Pitocchetto' Pittore Verista," Pantheon 25, Jahrgang V (September-October 1967), 360, fig. 25.

R. Bassi-Rathgeb, Arte Veneta 21 (1967), 237.

Fern R. Shapley, Paintings From the Samuel H. Kress Collection: XVI-XVIII Century (London: Phaidon, 1973), 108, illus. fig. 202.

Mina Gregori, Giacomo Ceruti (Bergamo: Monumenta Bergomensia LVIII, 1982), no. 166, illus. pls. 166 and 166a.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 214.

John T. Spike, Giuseppe Maria Crespi and the Emergence of Genre Painting in Italy (exhibition catalogue) (Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 1986), cat. no. 47, illus.

Giacomo Ceruti, Il Pitocchetto (exhibition catalogue) (Milan: published by Nuove edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta for Monastery of St. Guilia, Brescia, 1987), cat. no. 61, illus. (color).

Fabrizio Dentrice, "Poveri ma Belli," L'Espresso (June 21, 1987), 132-5, illus. [curatorial file].

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 202.

David Steel, "A Gift to America," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1993), 8.

Chiyo Ishikawa, et al, A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), cat. no. 51 (entry by D. Steel), illus. (color) 260, detail (b-w x-ray) 261.
Exhibition HistoryFort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, "Giuseppe Maria Crespi and the Emergence of Genre Painting in Italy," September 20-December 7, 1986, cat. no. 47, illus.

Brescia, Italy, Monastery of St. Guilia, June 13-October 31, 1987, "Giacomo Ceruti, Il Pitocchetto," cat. no. 61, illus. (color).

Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, February 5-April 24, 1994 "A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 22-August 14, 1994; Seattle Art Museum, September 15-November 20, 1994; The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, December 17, 1994-March 4, 1995, cat. no. 51, illus. (color) 260, detail (b-w x-ray) 261.

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