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The Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian, Lombard, 15711610)
Oil on canvas; 37 x 49 3/8 in. (94 x 125.4 cm)
Gift of Herman and Lila Shickman, and Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997 (1997.167)
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Provenance/Ownership History
Cardinal Paolo Savelli, palazzo Savelli, Ariccia (by 1624d. 1632; inv., 1624, without attribution; inv., 1631, no. 87, without attribution, "Un S. Pietro con L'ancella cornice dorata"); his brother, Federico Savelli, palazzo Savelli, Ariccia, and palazzo di Montesavello, Rome (1632d. 1649); his nephew, Cardinal Fabrizio Savelli, palazzo di Montesavello, Rome (1649at least 1650; inv., February 3, 1650, as "S. Pietro negante del Caravag.o"; inv., September 1650, as "Un' Ancella con S. Pietro negante, et una altra meza figura per traverso, p.mi 5, et 4 del Caravaggio, D. 250"); Vincenzo Imparato Caracciolo, Naples (bought on the Neapolitan art market after 1945; by 1952); his daughter, principessa Elena Imparato Caracciolo, Naples (until 1964/70; sold to Dik); [Ian Dik, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Julius Weitzner, New York and London, 1964/7076; sold to Shickman]; [Herman Shickman, New York, 197697; sold to MMA]
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