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| Keywords: Giovanni Battista Gaulli - Portrait of a Man - Walters 371832.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18749471 Creator Giovanni Battista Gaulli The glittering embroidery on the sitter's ermine-trimmed jacket recalls 17th-century Polish uniforms and suggests that he may have been a member of a visiting delegation to Rome Born and trained in Genoa Baciccio once in Rome became a protégé of the great sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini who helped him obtain commissions The open upturned hand is a gesture associated with conversation in this case presumably with the viewer This along with the way the sitter leans slightly to one side gives the portrait a sense of spontaneity that recalls Bernini's lively style Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 325 452 ca 1700 Baroque Oil on canvas cm 90 1 76 7 ; Painted surface cm 68 7 55 5 accession number 37 1832 37708 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 790 as Louis M van Loo Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Baroque Portraiture in Italy The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1985 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Portrait paintings by Baciccio 18th-century portrait paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1700c Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review 18th-century portrait paintings of unidentified men 1700c 18th-century oil portraits of men at half length 1700c | ||||
