拍品專文
Antonio Palomino, a painter of no great distinction, is well known
as author of 'El Parnaso español pintoresco laureado', a collection
of two hundred and twenty-six biographies written in emulation of Vasari, published in 1724 as the third part of his 'El Museo Pictórico y Escala Optica'.
Juan Bautista Simó or Simoni, a Valencian, became the pupil and assistant of Palomino while the latter was executing his fresco in the Church of S. Juan del Mercado in Valencia in 1697. He returned to Madrid with Palomino and worked with him until his death.
The signature and date on the present picture contradict the statement of Ceán Bermúdez (J. A. Ceán Bermúdez, Diccionario Histórico de los mas Ilustres Profesores de las Bellas Artes en España, 1800, IV, p.381) that he died in 1717.
as author of 'El Parnaso español pintoresco laureado', a collection
of two hundred and twenty-six biographies written in emulation of Vasari, published in 1724 as the third part of his 'El Museo Pictórico y Escala Optica'.
Juan Bautista Simó or Simoni, a Valencian, became the pupil and assistant of Palomino while the latter was executing his fresco in the Church of S. Juan del Mercado in Valencia in 1697. He returned to Madrid with Palomino and worked with him until his death.
The signature and date on the present picture contradict the statement of Ceán Bermúdez (J. A. Ceán Bermúdez, Diccionario Histórico de los mas Ilustres Profesores de las Bellas Artes en España, 1800, IV, p.381) that he died in 1717.