Il Pensionante del Saraceni // The Fruit Vendor

(Active 1610s-1620s) In an article published in 1943, the scholar Roberto Longhi, a great authority on Caravaggio's followers, attributed a group of four paintings to an artist whose identity remains unknown, but who was clearly influenced by the Venetian painter Carlo Saraceni. He dubbed this presumed pupil or associate 'Pensionante del Saraceni', literally the lodger or boarder of Saraceni.