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Master of the Open-mouthed Boys [Maître des Enfants à la Bouche Ouverte; Maître des Petits Garçons à la Bouche Entr’ouverte]
( fl Rome, c. 1615–25). Painter, active in Italy. Nicolson (1979) gave this name to the artist presumed responsible for a small number of Caravaggesque paintings of heads and half-length figures first grouped together by Bréjon de Lavergnée and Cuzin. They considered him to have been possibly a French pupil of Carlo Saraceni. The appellation derives from the distinctive open-mouthed expression of the young, male subjects of the pictures. These include a pair of tondi representing Jacob and Esau and David with the Head of Goliath (ex-Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1967), two paintings of the Head of a Young Man (Stanford, CA, U. A.G. & Mus.; Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum) and a Small Boy Frightening a Little Girl with a Crab (untraced). Rosenberg added to these Concert with a Singer, Theorbo Player and Woman with a Crown (Richmond, VA Mus. F.A.), while Fohr, less convincingly, attributed a Triumph of David (Tours, Mus. B.-A.) to this painter.
Part of the Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists family
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