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Giacomo Ceruti

Giacomo Ceruti

1698–1767
WA-00023297
Milan, Italy
PaintingBaroque
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
3
Works in Collection
36
Assets Indexed
3
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
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Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (1)

Field Verification (3 fields)

2 cross-verified · 1 single-source
  • Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
  • Birth yearWikidata· 92%✓
  • NationalityWikidata· 92%

Source Registry (2)

About

Why this artist matters now

Giacomo Ceruti was an eighteenth-century Lombard painter specializing in genre scenes and portraits of working people and the rural poor. Active primarily in Milan and northern Italy, he documented peasants, beggars, and laborers with a directness and dignity that departed from the moralizing conventions of contemporary genre painting. His muted palette and compositional restraint brought a naturalistic gravity to subjects typically treated as picturesque or comedic in Baroque tradition. Ceruti's social focus and technical precision established him as a significant figure in the development of northern Italian realism.

Source: Artsy · Trust score: 85% · Updated 1mo ago

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Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement
Baroque
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
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Institutional

Museum Collections

Canonical record

Artworks (3)

Artwork sources (2)

3 published of 30 catalogued · 29 with image
  • The Met
    3 published2 img
  • + 1 more source · 27 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)

10 entries · 1 sources
  • A Woman with a Dog
    1740 · Met · 5 prov
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  • An Old Man with a Dog
    1744 · Met · 5 prov
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Images

Artsy artwork: Boy with a basket (The porter) (ca. 1735)
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Artsy artwork: Portrait of a Young Man (1735-1740)
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A Woman with a Dog (Met Museum)
Met Museum
Reclining Woman + Lines of Space (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

2
Movements1
Baroque
Collections1
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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