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Catalogue raisonné: Description in Italian Paintings: Three Centuries of Collecting, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2015, cat.no. 29: 

FORMER INV. NOS.: 459 (M. 1796–97); 52 (F. 1798); 64 (M. 1804);
KM 844.

PROVENANCE: Martelli 1804.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: NM Cat. 1867, p. 5 (as Cerquozzi); Sander 1872–
76, III, p. 98, no. 64 (as Cerquozzi); NM Cat. 1958, p. 39 (as Cerquozzi);
NM Cat. 1990, p. 71 (as Cerquozzi).

A shoemaker approaches a woman sitting outside
her front door. He is dressed in typical
17th-century clothing, with a wide-brimmed hat,
and carries a roll of leather and a sack supposedly
containing a shoemaker’s tools and materials. The
woman lifts her left foot to show her ruined shoe.
Next to her there are also a dog, a cat and a caged
hen. In the background stretches the Roman campagna.
This is a genre picture of the kind typical of
the Bamboccianti, Pieter van Laer and his followers,
depicting an ordinary scene from everyday
life, although the composition seems somewhat
theatrical.

Together with its companion piece Two Women
Swingling Flax (NM 72, cat. no. 30), this painting
is listed in Fredenheim’s catalogue under
the heading “Michel Ange Cerquozzi dit des
Batailles”.¹ Since then, the attribution has never
been questioned, and it is maintained in the 1990
Nationalmuseum catalogue of European paintings.
A typical work of the genre painter Cerquozzi,
the painting is heavily influenced by the
works of Pieter van Laer and Jan Miel. For further
discussion on Michelangelo Cerquozzi, see NM
68 and NM 69 (cat. nos. 26–27).
JE

1 NM Archives, Kongl. Museum, F:1, Catalogue du Cabinet
de Martelli (à Rome). [END]

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