SOUNDER AND FANTASY Oil painting on canvas. The stylistic composition of this gender scene, which has as its main subject the poor, the peasants and the vagabonds, is part of that line of paintings of reality which has in Lombardy a centuries-old tradition (Vincenzo Foppa, the Brescians Moretto and Savoldo, Caravaggio); But no one before Ceruti was able to investigate with such ruthless lucidity the true reality of the day. The author of the work, painted in documentary style and with the spirit of human empathy, is to be found among the most important expositions of the late Italian baroque. Probable author: Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti, known as Pitocchetto. Milan 1698-1797 Where: L