Gaspare Traversi, 1760 - Teasing a Sleeping Girl - fine art print

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This 18th century work of art was created by the Italian artist Gaspare Traversi. The version of the artwork has the following size of 34 1/8 x 42 3/8 in (86,7 x 107,6 cm) and was crafted with the medium oil on canvas. Furthermore, this artpiece is in the the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971 (licensed: public domain). : Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971. Moreover, alignment is landscape with an image ratio of 1.2 : 1, which means that the length is 20% longer than the width. Gaspare Traversi was a male painter, born of Italian nationality, whose style can be classified as Rococo. The artist was born in 1722 and died at the age of 48 in the year 1770.

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Little is known of Traversi's career, but he was unquestionably the leading genre painter in eighteenth-century Naples. His pictures parodying the pastimes of the noble classes are particularly striking for their emphatic naturalism and biting wit. In this work an old woman tickles a young girl who has fallen asleep with her box of keepsakes on her lap.

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