# Madonna of the Rosary is sold out of Naples around 1607 as Caravaggio loses control of a major altarpiece to market intermediaries

Date: 1607

## The fact

Britannica and Met narratives record the Madonna of the Rosary painted in the Naples period and promptly alienated through Flemish dealers toward Northern collectors, showing the painter’s weak hold on proceeds. Dealers share the market file. Later Vienna display is carrier.

It is one event.

## Context

Seven Works of Mercy neighbours Naples charity painting.

[Caravaggio](/people/caravaggio)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Fugitive Naples market; Flemish merchants as intermediaries.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and Met Heilbrunn independently discuss the Rosary’s Naples origin and quick sale north.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Caravaggio (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Artist dispossession via dealer markets is an [income-inequality](/drivers/income-inequality) path.

## What is established and what is not

Established: ~1607 Rosary alienation in the biography/market file. Not established: exact scudi here.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Caravaggio.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `income-inequality` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not date the Kunsthistorisches display as his act. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Caravaggio.
The driver `income-inequality` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not date the Kunsthistorisches display as his act. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Caravaggio.

## People

- Caravaggio: https://factrail.ai/people/caravaggio

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio
- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-madonna-rosary-sale-1607