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While the naturally painted still life was a central element of Caravaggio’s Boy with a Basket of Fruit, Caravaggio also created one of the first pure still-life paintings, with no figural subject: his Basket of Fruit, now at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. It is unlikely that Cavarozzi knew that painting directly, for it had been taken to Milan in the first years of the century when Cavarozzi was still a youth, but it is not hard to imagine that others in Rome, such as Cavarozzi’s patron Marchese Giovanni Battista Crescenzi, remembered the work and suggested the subject to the younger artist.