Blindman's Buff

1640s

Angeluccio , Artist Michelangelo Cerquozzi , Artist

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About the Artwork

Title Blindman's Buff

Artwork Date 1640s

Makers Angeluccio (Artist) Italian, active c. 1640 - 1650 Michelangelo Cerquozzi (Artist) Italian, 1602-1660

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 38 11/16 × 33 11/16 inches (98.2 × 85.5 cm) Framed: 46 1/4 × 41 1/8 × 1 7/8 inches (117.5 × 104.5 × 4.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reichhold

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 42.11

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July 25, 1938, auctioned by (Christie's, London, England), lot 160;
July 25, 1938, purchased by Smith;
1940, (Mortimer Brandt, Inc., New York, New York, USA);
(Schaeffer and Brandt Inc., New York, New York, USA)
1942, purchased by (Durlacher Bros., New York, New York, USA);
1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with gift funds of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reichhold

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Published References

Ten Pictures in Search of an Author. Exh. cat., Mortimer Brandt Gallery. New York, November 10-30, 1940, cat. 1.

Valentiner, W. R. "An Early Work by Claude Lorrain," Bulletin of the DIA 21, no. 7 (1941-2): pp. 58-61, esp. p. 57, (repr. on cover) [as by Claude Lorrain and Pieter van Laer]. Reprinted in Art Quarterly, vol. 5 (1942): pp. 186, 190, 194.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. 1944, pp. 27, 161, no. 478, (repr.) [as by Claude Lorrain and Pieter van Laer].

Briganti, G. "Pieter van Laer and Michelangelo Cerquozzi," Proporzioni, vol. 3 (1950): pp. 185-198, esp. p. 190-91, (fig. 22), pl. 223 [or 222?].

Briganti, Giuliano, ed. I Bamboccianti: pittori della vita popolare nel Seicento. cat., Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne. Rome, 1950, pp. 33-41, p. 40, cat. 29 [org. by Alessandro Morandotti].

Mahon, D. and D. Sutton. Artists in 17th Century Rome. cat., Wildenstein & Co., 1955, p. 1, cat. 1 [DIA picture cited only].

di Carpegna, N., ed. I paesisti e vedutisti a Roma nel '600 nel '700'. cat., Palazzo Barberini. Rome, 1956, pp. 7-8, cat. 3.

Il Seicento Europeo: Realismo, Classicismo, Barocco, 2nd ed. cat., Palazzo delle Esposizione. Rome, 1968, pp. 62-63, no. 3 [DIA picture cited only; entry discusses Chigi version, "Giuoco in Giardino." Organized by A. Marabottoni.]

Röthlisberger, M. Claude Lorrain: The Paintings. New Haven, 1961, vol. 1, no. 252, pp. 519-20 [DIA picture titled "Wooded Landscape"].

Art In Italy, 1600-1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1965, cat. 13, pp. 33-34, (repr.) [organized by F. Cummings, entry by Donald Posner].

Röthlisberger, M. "Drawings around Claude, Part II: Drawings by Angeluccio," Master Drawings, 1966, vol. 4, no. 4, p. 383.

Röthlisberger, M. "Angeluccio," Gazette des Beaux Arts, vol. 69, nos. 4 & 5 (March 1967): pp. 129-138, esp. p. 136, no. 9 [DIA picture appears at end of article, among list of Angeluccio's known works].

Paesisti bamboccianti nelle Roma seicentesca. Palazzo Pitti. Florence, 1967, p. 23 [org. by M. Chiarini].

Fredericksen, B. & F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. 1972, pp. 9, 51.

Salerno, L. Pittori di paesaggio del seicento a Roma/Landscape Painters of the Seventeenth Century in Rome. Rome, 1977-80, vol. 2, p. 480.

Laureati, L. "Michelangelo Cerquozzi." In The Bamboccianti: The Painters of Everyday Life in 17th Century Rome. G. Briganti, L. Trezzani, and L. Laureati, eds. Rome, 1983, pp. 132-194, esp. p. 154, 176, 376, note 45, pl. 5.38 [illustrates Chigi version]. Reprint of 1950 Italian exhibition, English trans. by Robert E. Wolf.

Consigli Valenti, P. and I. Consigli. Paesaggi e marine dal cinquecento all'ottocento. Rome, 1990, p. 44.

Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center, Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 9, 14, 15 (ill.).

Bissell, R. W., A. Derstine, D. and Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 11 (note 11), 21-23, cat. no. 6 [entry by Ward Bissell].

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