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Catalogue raisonné: Description in Italian Paintings: Three Centuries of Collecting, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2015, cat.no. 27:


FORMER INV. NOS.: 128 (M. 1796–97); 50 (F. 1798); 335a (M. 1804);
KM 1127.

TECHNICAL NOTES: The support is a medium-coarse, plainweave
linen fabric. It has been glue-lined and mounted with staples
on a typical Martelli strainer. This was probably done in Italy
before shipping to Sweden. The ground is red. The paint layer is
abraded and UV fluorescence shows some old retouches under the
thick yellowed varnish.

PROVENANCE: Martelli 1804.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: NM Cat. 1867, p. 5 (as Cerquozzi);
Göthe 1887, p. 47 (as Cerquozzi); Sander 1872–76, III, 
p. 124, no. 335a (as Miel or Cerquozzi); NM Cat. 
1958, p. 39 (as Cerquozzi, attributed to); NM
Cat. 1990, p. 72 (as Cerquozzi, attributed to).

A saddled white horse is depicted grazing at the
edge of a forest. To its right are a donkey and a
man, and in the background to the right there is
another donkey followed by a man and, further
back, a man on horseback. The grazing horse is
skilfully represented as a light contrast to the
dark landscape. Together with its companion
piece Landscape with Ruins and a Saddled White
Horse (NM 70, cat. no. 28), this painting seems to
have formed a narrative sequence, possibly with
more paintings now lost, with the man and his
horse on the move in search of a better existence.¹

This small painting and its companion are difficult
to identify in the Fredenheim inventories,
but original verso labels indicate some uncertainty
concerning the attribution: “Miel o Cerquozzi.
Bambocciate”. We know that Michelangelo
Cerquozzi worked together with the Flemish
painter Jan Miel, and there are several paintings
that have been confused between the two artists.²
When this work and its pendant reached Sweden,
the uncertainty was ignored and they were
subsequently attributed to the more skilful of the
two painters, namely Michelangelo Cerquozzi.
According to Francis Haskell, the influence of
Pieter van Laer and Jan Miel is most evident in
the artist’s early paintings,³ which may indicate a
rather early dating for these works. On the other
hand, Giuliano Briganti points to the difficulties
in trying to establish a chronology in Cerquozzi’s
homogeneous oeuvre,⁴ which make it hard to
propose a date with any certainty.
JE

1 Julia Unge Sörling, unpublished paper, Gotland University,
2012.
2 Haskell 1980, p. 137; Briganti 1983, pp. 102, 149.
3 Haskell 1980, p. 137.
4 Briganti 1983, p. 146.
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