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Thursday 28 November 2024, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Nicola Vaccaro

(Napoli 1640 - 1709)

Holy Family with St. John the Baptist

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oil on canvas
cm 128 x 96
old inventory number on the back 18

The painting is accompanied by an expertise by Professor Pierluigi Leone de Castris, available in a copy, dated 20 October 2024, which confirms the present attribution. The scholar dates the work to around 1680, the period in which Nicola distanced himself and emancipated himself from the pictorial language of his father Andrea Vaccaro, still strongly influenced by the style of Anton van Dyck and the neo-Venetian currents present in Naples in the mid-seventeenth century. Nicola instead welcomes new figurative stimuli here, from the classicism of Carlo Maratta, perhaps learned during his stay in Rome, to the irruption onto the Neapolitan scene of the first works of Francesco Solimena.

The painting finds a comparison with the two large canvases in the first chapel on the right in the Church of Santa Maria in Portico in Naples, in particular with the Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the young Saint John, in which we find the same background that opens onto a beautiful landscape and the same faces full of sweetness of the children.

This attribution has been confirmed by Professor Riccardo Lattuada on the basis of photos.