
Mattia Preti, A Man Cutting Tobacco, 1660s. Oil on canvas, overall: 103.19 x 90.49 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Patrons' Permanent Fund, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, and New Century Fund 2023.19.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired A Man Cutting Tobacco, painted in Malta in the 1660s by the leading Italian Baroque artist, Mattia Preti (1613–1699). Unique for the 17th century in Italy and unusual within Preti’s body of work, this painting straddles genres between portraiture and still...
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