Peasants near Roman Ruins . Paolo Monaldi
Monaldi specialized in anecdotal images of peasants, such as this idyllic scene with peasants during a break, eating, drinking, and playing music. It is an amusing image of a simple life focused on immediate pleasures and contrasted with the ruins of the heroic past of ancient Rome. The pyramid is surely based on the small one just outside the city walls, built by a Roman named Caius Cestius in AD 11, but here it is placed in an idealized landscape.
circa 1760 (Baroque)
oil on canvas
Visible painted surface Height: 64.5 cm (25.4 in). Width: 47.6 cm (18.7 in).
Walters Art Museum
Accession number 37.1151
Place of creation Rome, Italy
Object history
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 158
1897 catalogue: no. 263, as Andrea Locatelli]
1902: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history A Renaissance Puzzle: Heemskerck's Abduction of Helen. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1993.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
References Federico Zeri (1976) (in English) Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, no. 418, pp. 530 OCLC: 2463997.
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