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| Keywords: Bartolomeo Schedoni - The Infant Christ Sleeping - Walters 37611.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Bartolomeo Schedoni In the strong harsh light the naked sleeping baby Jesus appears alarmingly vulnerable yet monumentally imposing in contrast to the tiny figures of his mother and St Joseph in the background The death-like state of his sleep points to his future Passion and death while the white cloth on which he lies is meant to bring to mind his shroud Schedoni's curiously tender yet brutal naturalism owes much to the extended influence of Caravaggio's painting style even though the artist may never have actually met him Schedoni often had copies made of his works This painting of which several versions exist was probably painted by an assistant Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 264 389-390 ca 1600 1615 Baroque oil walnut cm 25 8 55 2 5 accession number 37 611 695 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 270 as Schedoni Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 langswitch auf on cartellino Going for Baroque The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995-1996 place of origin Parma Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Bartolomeo Schedoni Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review 17th-century paintings of Jesus Christ as a baby Black and white reproductions of paintings in color Paintings of Jesus Christ as a sleeping child | ||||
