Oil on board. Framed measurements: 160 x 130 cm, canvas measurements: 124 x 94 cm. (Viterbo, h. 1588-Rome, 1625). Italian painter. He came to Rome when he was still a child. It is assumed that in a first stage he was trained in the workshop of the painter Pomarancio, to later become a protégé of the noble Crescenzi family. In 1617 he arrived in Spain, accompanying Giovanni Battista Crescenzi, who would become the true definer of artistic taste at the Madrid court. After a Spanish stay of almost two years, the painter returned to Rome in 1619. Within the Roman pictorial environment, he concentrated on learning the Caravaggio forms, so much in vogue during his training. Only one work by Cavarozzi is kept in the Prado Museum: The Holy Family and Saint Catherine, which has been dated between 1617 and 1619, within the Spanish stage of the painter. Several copies of this composition, which must have been very repeated, are preserved. The first specific reference to it is found in the collection of Isabel de Farnesio, in which it was cataloged in 1746 as a work by Guido Reni. Longhi was the one who first attributed the work to Cavarozzi, and it has remained so. Reference bibliography: Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E., Borgianni, Cavarozzi and Nardi in Spain, Madrid, Instituto Diego Velázquez, csic, 1964, p. 22. Provenance: important Spanish private collection Borgianni, Cavarozzi and Nardi in Spain, Madrid, Diego Velázquez Institute, csic, 1964, p. 22. Provenance: important Spanish private collection Borgianni, Cavarozzi and Nardi in Spain, Madrid, Diego Velázquez Institute, csic, 1964, p. 22. Provenance: important Spanish private collection