Street Musicians

ca. 1630

Bernardo Strozzi Italian, 1581-1644

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About the Artwork

Title Street Musicians

Artwork Date ca. 1630

Artist Bernardo Strozzi

Life Dates 1581-1644

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 43 1/4 × 61 5/8 inches (109.8 × 156.5 cm) Framed: 51 3/4 × 71 × 3 inches (131.4 × 180.3 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of the Italian Americans of Detroit on the occasion of Detroit's 250th Birthday, Tonti Night, July 18, 1951

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. 51.13

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Provenance

unknown collector/collection (Italy);
late 19th century, purchased by Pietro Cardiello [d. 1929], Italian Vice-counsel (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
Mrs. Pietro Cardiello (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1951-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Suida, W.E. The Samuel H. Kress Collection in the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum. San Francisco, 1955, pp. 58-59.

Pèrez Sànchez, A.E. "Algunas obras de Bernardo Strozzi en España." Archivo español de arte 33 (1960): no. 132, p. 424.

Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 174, no. 199 (ill.).

Longhi, R. Scritti giovanile. Florence, 1961, vol. 1, p. 489.

Pèrez Sànchez, A.E. "Pintura italiana del siglio XVII en España." Diss., University of Madrid, 1965, p. 541.

Mortari, L. Bernardo Strozzi. Rome, 1966, p. 101.

Bernardo Strozzi: Paintings and Drawings. Exh. cat., SUNY Art Gallery. Binghampton, 1967, p. 12, 56-57, no. 22 (cover. ill.).

Moir. A. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge, MA, 1967, vol. 1, pp. 203-204; vol. 2, p. 109 (fig. 256).

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri.Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 193.

Bernardo Strozzi, Master Painter of the Baroque. Exh. cat., Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore, 1995, pp. 10, 41, no. 23, (ill.).

Mortari, L. Bernardo Strozzi, 2nd ed. Rome, 1995, p. 172, no. 409.

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, 38-39 (ill.).

Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller, Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10, 11, 180-183, cat. no. 59.

Goldfarb, Hilliard T., ed. Art and Music in Venice: From the Renaissance to the Baroque. New Haven, 2013, p. 181, cat. no. 82, color (ill.).

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, pp. 98, 102.

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Bernardo Strozzi, Street Musicians, ca. 1630, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Italian Americans of Detroit on the occasion of Detroit's 250th Birthday, Tonti Night, July 18, 1951, 51.13.