The Cheater at Cards

Possibly collection of Joseph Bonaparte [1]. Mr. and Mrs. Barklie McKee Henry; 1961 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.

Notes

[1] A note in the curatorial files states: "Mr. Henry's great-grandfather, Bernard Henry, was U.S. Consul at Gibraltar ca 1812-1836.
Unwittingly, he harbored Achille Murat, King of Naples, who was a fugitive using an assumed name. On learning of his identity, to avoid compromising the United States, he helped Murat escape quietly. The Bonapartes, as an expression of appreciation, gave
Mrs. Henry a pearl necklace and this painting. (A son of Joseph Bonaparte married the Henry's daughter.)." However, Joseph Bonaparte did not have any sons.

• Fritz Baumgart, "Die "Falschspieler" Caravaggios", in Das Werk des Künstlers, (Stuttgart?: Kohlhammer?, 1940?)., p. 482-524
• Hugo Wagner, Michelangelo da Caravaggio, (Bern: Eicher, 1958). , p. 33-34
• "Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 21, no. 1 (1962): p. 25-27, p. 26
• B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 99
• Alfred Moir, Caravaggio and his copyists, (New York: New York University Press for the College Art Association of America, 1976). , p. 105; no. .521

• Helen Langdon, Caravaggio's Cardsharps: trickery and illusion (London; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013).

  , fig. 47; p. 44 (illus.), 74