A Country Gentleman
ca. 1750
Oil on canvas
Ceruti is best known for his unsentimental and closely observed paintings of beggars and impoverished laborers. The unusual freshness and directness that Ceruti brought to these subjects carried over into his more conventional portraits of eminent citizens of Brescia, a city in northern Italy. Samuel H. Kress Collection [Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955), Rome-Florence]; purchased by Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, July 1, 1950 (exhibited: I Pittori della Realta in Lombardia, Palazzo Reale, Milan, April-July 1953, no. 138 of catalogue by R. Cipriani and G. Testori); Seattle Art Museum, since 1954, accessioned 1961
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