Woman Begging with Two Children — the eponymous painting from whose distinctive indigo fabric the entire group took its name — has entered a public collection. The @Pinacoteca_Zuest has received this canvas as a generous donation from the Fondazione Dr. Joseph Scholz (Zürich), ensuring that a work of remarkable art historical significance is now accessible to all. [...]

It was around this very composition that Gerlinde Gruber first assembled and published the group in 2006–2007, before Galerie Canesso presented The Master of the Blue Jeans. A New Painter of Reality in Late 17th-Century Europe in Paris and New York in 2010–2011 — an exhibition that brought this anonymous master to international attention and firmly established his place in the history of art, and in the history of the Blue Jeans fabric.

To see the painting that gave a name to an entire body of work enter a museum is, for us, the most fitting outcome imaginable.