Estimate
€ 6.000 - 8.000
Sold
€ 10.860
The price includes buyer's premium
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oil on canvas
cm 145 x 77
Given the high quality of execution, it is not possible to exclude the direct intervention of the master himself; the painting was probably executed as a small model or "souvenir" of the altarpiece.
cm 145 x 77
Provenance
Finarte Auction Milan, 10 June 1987, lot 130;
private collection.
private collection.
Literature
N. Spinosa, Francesco Solimena (1657 - 1747) e le Arti a Napoli, Rome 2018, p. 330 cit.
The painting is related to the altarpiece depicting the same subject, made by Solimena and now preserved in the Church of Monteoliveto in Naples.Given the high quality of execution, it is not possible to exclude the direct intervention of the master himself; the painting was probably executed as a small model or "souvenir" of the altarpiece.
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