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Artist in the Global Art Registry
Giacomo Ceruti
1698–1767 · Duchy of Milan
- Born
- 1698 · Milan
- Died
- 1767 · Milan
6 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Giacomo Ceruti was an Italian painter active in Northern Italy who painted a variety of subjects including portraits and genre scenes. He is best known for large-scale genre scenes depicting common people with realism, which earned him the nickname Pitocchetto.
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Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti (13 October 1698 – 28 August 1767) was an Italian late Baroque painter, active in Northern Italy. He painted a variety of subjects, including portraits, religious and mythological scenes and still lifes. He is best known as a painter of large-scale genre scenes in which beggars, paupers, pilgrims, old people and simple craftsmen are depicted realistically in portrait form or engaged in their daily activities. This subject matter, which he treated with empathy, earned him the nickname Pitocchetto ('little beggar').
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Registered works
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Featured works
Selected registered works by Giacomo Ceruti
Selected from 6 works by Giacomo Ceruti in the Collect24 Registry.
Giacomo Ceruti
Still Life with Bread, Salami, and Nuts, about 1750–1760
Oil on paper laid down on canvas
32 × 45 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-137534
Giacomo Ceruti
Still Life with Hen and Onion, about 1750–1760
Oil on paper laid down on canvas
32 × 45 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-136146
Giacomo Ceruti
Portrait of a Cello Player, 1750
oil paint
92 × 74 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum
C24-438394
Giacomo Ceruti
An Old Man with a Dog, 1740s
Oil on canvas
65 × 45 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-120710
Giacomo Ceruti
A Woman with a Dog, 1740s
Oil on canvas
96.5 × 72.4 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-104052
Giacomo Ceruti
A Woman Spinning (recto); A Woman Holding a Bundle (verso), 18th century
Pen and brown ink
29.5 × 18.3 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-504242
Museums and collections
Where works by Giacomo Ceruti are registered
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
3 works
- J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
2 works
- Kunsthistorisches Museum
Austria
1 work
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