Scuola italiana (XX), After Caravaggio - Il bacchino malato

With frame
50x60cm
Without frame
40x59cm

Version of the famous painting “Young Sick Bacchus” by Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, presented in a fine handcrafted Neapolitan wooden frame decorated with gold leaf.

Meaning: The work is traditionally considered a self-portrait painted by the artist while he was being treated at the Hospital of Consolation for a serious illness (probably malaria or a severe form of jaundice), which explains the young man’s pale, yellowish complexion. The subject wears a crown of ivy leaves and holds a bunch of white grapes in his hand