JACOPO CESTARO (Bagnoli Irpino 1717-1778 Naples)
The Annunciation
oil on canvas, arched top
48¾ x 26¼ in. (123.8 x 66.6 cm.)
Provenance
Francesco Romano, Rome.
Literature
N. Spinosa, 'Pittori napoletani del secondo Settecento: Jacopo Cestaro, Napoli Nobilissima, IX, 3, 1970, pp. 83 and 87, note 43.
N. Spinosa, Pittura napoletana del Settecento, dal Rococò al Classicismo, Naples, 1987, p. 76, no. 25 and p. 187, fig. 37.
Lot Essay
The present work is a bozzetto for the altarpiece -- signed and dated 1764 -- in the church of the Annunziata in Angri.