The present painting dates to when Caravaggio, who arrived in Rome from Milan, was making his career in the Roman art world. The model was his friend, the Sicilian painter Mario Minniti, who was around 16 years old.
It was in the Giuseppe Cesari, the Cavaliere d'Arpino's studio that, according to Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Caravaggio learned 'to paint flowers and fruit so well imitated that everybody came to learn from him how to create the beauty that is so popular today.'
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