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| Teasing a Sleeping Girl |
Artist:Gaspare Traversi (Italian, Neapolitan, ca. 1722–1770)
Date:ca. 1760
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:34 1/8 x 42 3/8 in. (86.7 x 107.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Little is known of Traversi's career, but he was unquestionably the leading genre painter in eighteenth-century Naples. His pictures parodying the pastimes of the noble classes are particularly striking for their emphatic naturalism and biting wit. In this work an old woman tickles a young girl who has fallen asleep with her box of keepsakes on her lap.
Provenance
[Edward Speelman, London, 1967, purchased in Switzerland; sold for $12,000 to Kleinberger]; [Kleinberger, New York, 1967–75; bequeathed by Harry G. Sperling, last surviving partner of firm, to MMA]
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