Lot Essay
This picture is based on the Madonna and Child in Stanzione's Rest on the Flight into Egypt in the collection of Marchese Pica Andrea Dosi-Delfini, Pontremoli (see S. Schtze and T.C. Willette, Massimo Stanzione L'Opera completa, Naples, 1992, pp. 227-228, no. 75, fig. 270). We are grateful to Dr. Sebastian Schtze for confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph (oral communication).