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Three paintings by Orsola Maddalena Caccia
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The bequest of two striking still-lifes and a religious scene by the artist and nun Orsola Maddalena Caccia is stoking interest in her unusual career. The paintings, among 11 works bestowed by the late hedge-fund executive Errol Rudman, are
Fruit and Flowers (around 1630),
Flowers in a Grotesque Vase (around 1635) and
Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (around 1625). Caccia oversaw a studio in an Ursuline convent in Moncalvo, Italy, founded by her father in part to house his six daughters.
Fruit and Flowers attests to Caccia’s imagination: the Met notes that the blooms seem to sprout directly from the stone on which they rest. The still-lifes are on view in the museum’s newly reinstalled European galleries.