Lot 149
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Francesco Magliulo (active Naples, 2nd half 17th Century)
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Francesco Magliulo (active Naples, 2nd half 17th Century)

Belshazzar's Feast

Details
Francesco Magliulo (active Naples, 2nd half 17th Century)
Belshazzar's Feast
signed 'FRANCISCO MAGLIOLO.F.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
61 x 81 in. (154.9 x 205.7 cm.)
Provenance
Duca di Marigliano, Naples (according to an old German label on the stretcher).
Messinger collection, Munich, from which acquired by the present owner.
Literature
L. Ozzola, 'Le Rovine Romane nella Pittura del XVII e XVIII Secolo II', Arte, XVI, pp. 113 and 117 note 1, fig. 15.
U. Prota-Giurleo, Pittori napoletani del Seicento, Naples, 1953.
Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani dall'XI al XX secolo, Turin, 1975, VII, p. 102.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This is one of the only three known examples of works by the Neapolitan artist Francesco Magliulo. The other two, Christ and the Adulteress and The Washing of the Ten Lepers, are recorded as having been commissioned by a certain Giuseppe Rodeoro in 1666.

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