Teasing a Sleeping Girl, Gaspare Traversi, ca. 1760

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Teasing a Sleeping Girl, ca. 1760, Oil on canvas, 34 1/8 x 42 3/8 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Gaspare Traversi (Italian, Neapolitan, ca. 1722–1770), 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

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