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Caravaggio and His Copyists The publication of this monograph has been aided by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation BLANK PAGE ALFRED MOIR Caravaggio and His Copyists PUBLISHED BY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS /or the College Art Association of America NEW YORK 1976 Monographs on Archaeology and Fine Arts JponJored by THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA and THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA XXXI Editor Lucy Freeman Sandler Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Moir, Alfred. Caravaggio and his copyists. Bibliography: p. 1. Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1571-1610- Influence. 2. Art, Modern-17th-18th centuries. 3. Art, Modern-19th century. 4. Pictures- Copying. 5. Art-Attribution. I. Title. N6407.M64 760 75-27051 ISBN 0-8147-5408-2 Copyright© 1976 by the College Art Association of America Contents Preface lX List of illustrations XV I. When, Where, How, and Why Copies after Caravaggio Came into Being, Who Made Them, and What Happened to Them 1 II. Copies as a Means of Authentication 31 III. Copies as a Mark of Taste 39 IV. Variants 47 V. Literary Sources 53 VI. Concluding Remarks 59 Addenda 65 Text Notes 69 Appendix I. Caravaggio's Oeuvre and Its Copies 79 Part A: Existing Autograph Paintings 83 Part B: Lost Paintings 103 Part C: Doubtful Attributions 116 vi CARA V AGGIO AND HIS COPYISTS Part D: Paintings Not by Caravaggio 116 Part E: Works Not Considered 120 Notes on Appendix I 121 Appendix II. Numerical Computations 163 Appendix III. Scale of Originals; Numbers and Scale of Copies 165 Bibliography 167 Illustrations 177 To the memory of Pat Martin BLANK PAGE
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