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Number 382, October 2025

Still Life with Melon, Watermelon, and Other Fruits (around 1610-20) by Pensionante del Saraceni
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

The unidentified Caravaggesque artist known as Pensionante del Saraceni has puzzled art historians since Roberto Long first coined the nickname in 1943. Believed to have lodged with the Venetian artist Carlo Saraceni in early 17th-century Rome, the artist is associated with a small number of paintings influenced by Caravaggio’s recolutionary realism in the decade after his death. This softly illuminated still-life of ripe late summer fruits, painted at close to life size, closely resembles the artist’s sumptouos Still Life with Fruit and Carafe (around 1610–20) in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The Kimbell Art Museum acquired this painting from the New York-based Old Master dealer Nicholas Hall.

 

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