Editing Caravaggio (section)

== Oeuvre ==
{{See also|List of paintings by Caravaggio}}
There is disagreement as to the size of Caravaggio's oeuvre, with counts as low as 40 and as high as 80. In his [[monograph]] of 1983, the Caravaggio scholar Alfred Moir wrote, "The forty-eight color plates in this book include almost all of the surviving works accepted by every Caravaggio expert as autograph, and even the least demanding would add fewer than a dozen more",<ref>Alfred Moir, "Caravaggio", p.9</ref> but there have been some generally accepted additions since then. One, ''[[The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew]]'', was in 2006 authenticated and restored; it had been in storage in [[Hampton Court]], mislabeled as a copy. [[Richard Francis Burton]] writes of a "picture of St. Rosario (in the museum of the Grand Duke of Tuscany), showing a circle of thirty men ''turpiter ligati''" ("lewdly banded"), which is not known to have survived. The rejected version of ''[[Saint Matthew and the Angel]]'', intended for the [[Contarelli Chapel]] in [[San Luigi dei Francesi]] in [[Rome]], was destroyed during the [[bombing of Dresden]], though black and white photographs of the work exist. In June 2011 it was announced that a previously unknown Caravaggio painting of [[Saint Augustine]] dating to about 1600 had been discovered in a private collection in Britain. Called a "significant discovery", the painting had never been published and is thought to have been commissioned by [[Vincenzo Giustiniani]], a patron of the painter in Rome.<ref>{{cite news|title=Unknown Caravaggio painting unearthed in Britain|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jun/19/unknown-caravaggio-painting-unearthed-britain|last=Alberge|first=Dalya|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=19 June 2011|access-date=20 June 2011|location=London}}</ref>
[[File:Conversion on the Way to Damascus-Caravaggio (c.1600-1).jpg|thumb|''[[Conversion on the Way to Damascus]]'', 1601, [[Cerasi Chapel]], [[Santa Maria del Popolo]], Rome]]

A painting depicting ''Judith Beheading Holofernes'' was allegedly discovered in an attic in [[Toulouse]] in 2014. In April 2016 the expert and art dealer to whom the work was shown announced that this was a long-lost painting by the hand of Caravaggio himself. That lost Caravaggio painting was only known up to that date by a presumed copy of it by the Flemish painter [[Louis Finson]], who had shared a studio with Caravaggio in Naples.<ref>[http://abonnes.lemonde.fr/arts/article/2016/04/12/un-caravage-a-t-il-ete-decouvert-dans-un-grenier-en-france_4900222_1655012.html?xtmc=caravage&xtcr=2 Philippe Dagen et Emmanuelle Jardonnet, ''Un Caravage a-t-il été découvert dans un grenier en France ?''] in Le Monde, 12 April 2016</ref>  The French government imposed an export ban on the newly discovered painting while tests were carried out to establish whether it was an authentic painting by Caravaggio.<ref name=BBCApr16>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36024865|title=Painting thought to be Caravaggio masterpiece found in French loft|date=12 April 2016|work=BBC News Online|access-date=12 April 2016}}</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/12/lost-caravaggio-causes-rift-in-art-world 'Lost Caravaggio,' found in a French attic, causes rift in the art world], ''[[The Guardian]]'', Angelique Chrisafis, 12 April 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016.</ref> In February 2019 it was announced that the painting would be sold at auction after the [[Louvre]] had turned down the opportunity to purchase it for €100 million.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/28/lost-caravaggio-rejected-by-the-louvre-may-be-worth-100m|title='Lost Caravaggio' rejected by the Louvre may be worth £100m |last=Brown|first=Mark|work=The Guardian|date=28 February 2019|access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref> After an auction was considered, the painting was finally sold in a private sale to the American billionaire hedge fund manager [[J. Tomilson Hill]].<ref>{{cite news|title = 'Toulouse Caravaggio' acquired in private deal prior to €100m auction|url=https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/print-edition/2019/july/2399/news/toulouse-caravaggio-acquired-in-private-deal-prior-to-100m-auction/|date=29 June 2019|work=Antiques trade gazette|access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title = Toulouse : où est passé le tableau de Caravage vendu 110 millions de dollars ?|url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2021/10/02/toulouse-ou-est-passe-le-tableau-de-caravage-vendu-110-millions-de-dollars-9827476.php|date=4 October 2021|work=La Dépêche du Midi|access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref> The art historical world is not united over the attribution of the work, with the art dealer who sold the work promoting its authenticity with the support of art historians who were given privileged access to the work, while other art historians remain unconvinced mainly based on stylistic and quality considerations.<ref>[https://thetoulousecaravaggio.com/en Caravaggio, ''Judith and Holofernes''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114052835/https://thetoulousecaravaggio.com/en |date=14 January 2023 }}, auction catalogue 2019</ref><ref>[https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2019/04/03/discovery-in-a-toulouse-attic-is-no-caravaggio Jonathan Jones, ''Discovery in a Toulouse attic is no Caravaggio''] in: The Art Newspaper, 3 April 2019</ref> Some art historians believe it may be a work by [[Louis Finson]] himself.<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/39547444/Le_Finson_de_Toulouse Olivier Morand, ''La Judith de Toulouse, Le chef d'oeuvre de Louis Finson'']</ref>

In April 2021 a minor work believed to be from the circle of a Spanish follower of Caravaggio, [[Jusepe de Ribera]], was withdrawn from sale at the Madrid auction house Ansorena when the [[Museo del Prado]] alerted the [[Ministry of Culture (Spain)|Ministry of Culture]], which placed a preemptive export ban on the painting. The {{convert|111|cm|in}} by {{convert|86|cm|in}} painting has been in the Pérez de Castro family since 1823, when it was exchanged for another work from the [[Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando|Real Academia of San Fernando]]. It had been listed as "Ecce-Hommo con dos saiones de Carabaggio" before the attribution was later lost or changed to the circle of Ribera. Stylistic evidence, as well as the similarity of the models to those in other Caravaggio works, has convinced some experts that the painting is the original Caravaggio '[[Ecce Homo (Caravaggio, Genoa)|Ecce Homo]]' for the 1605 Massimo Massimi commission. The attribution to Caravaggio is disputed by other experts. The painting is now undergoing restoration by [[P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.|Colnaghi]]s, who will also be handling the future sale of the work.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Possible Caravaggio Is Withdrawn From Auction; Spain Announces Export Ban | newspaper= [[The New York Times]] | author = Reyburn, Scott | date = 8 April 2021 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/arts/design/caravaggio-spain-export-ban.html }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | title= 'Damn, this is a Caravaggio!': the inside story of an old master found in Spain | newspaper= [[The Guardian]] |publisher= | author = Tondo, Lorenzo | author2= Jones, Sam | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/apr/23/damn-this-is-a-caravaggio-the-inside-story-of-an-old-master-found-in-spain | date = 23 April 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | title = The rediscovered Caravaggio: here is the truth about the owners of the Ecce Homo | author =  | publisher = Italy 24 News | url = https://www.italy24news.com/entertainment/news/290.html | date = 23 April 2021 | access-date = 27 April 2021 | archive-date = 27 April 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210427055354/https://www.italy24news.com/entertainment/news/290.html | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| title = Baroque Painting Almost Sold for €1,500 May Be a Caravaggio Worth Millions | author = Davis-Marks, Isis | journal = [[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] | url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spanish-government-bans-sale-possible-caravaggio-180977487/ | date= 13 April 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| title = Spain: Work due for auction from $1,800 may be a Caravaggio | author= Parra, Aritz | publisher= [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |url = https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/spain-work-due-auction-1800-caravaggio-76950061 |date= 8 April 2021 }}</ref>
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