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We are very grateful to Dr. Mary Newcome Schleier for the attribution, given on the basis of photographs.
Born in Genoa in 1554, Giovanni Battista Paggi became a student of Luca Cambiaso, the foremost Genoese painter of the time. Paggi, however, was banished from his native city for killing a client, and he was forced to take refuge in Florence, where he was able to establish his artistic reputation. Throughout the 1580s and '90s Paggi painted many commissions for the Medici Court, as well as numerous altarpieces for Churches throughout Tuscany. He was allowed to return to Genoa in 1599, where he remained for the rest of his life, influencing a new generation of Genoese artists.
Dr Newcome Schleier dates the present work to the late 1580s or 1590s. Variations on this theme can be found in a number of paintings and drawings by Paggi, and in particular the lighting effects, the movement of the figures and the sentimentality of the image can be compared with a Holy Family with musician angels (private collection; P. Pagano, ed., La pittura del '600 a Genova, Milan, 1988, no. 447).
Born in Genoa in 1554, Giovanni Battista Paggi became a student of Luca Cambiaso, the foremost Genoese painter of the time. Paggi, however, was banished from his native city for killing a client, and he was forced to take refuge in Florence, where he was able to establish his artistic reputation. Throughout the 1580s and '90s Paggi painted many commissions for the Medici Court, as well as numerous altarpieces for Churches throughout Tuscany. He was allowed to return to Genoa in 1599, where he remained for the rest of his life, influencing a new generation of Genoese artists.
Dr Newcome Schleier dates the present work to the late 1580s or 1590s. Variations on this theme can be found in a number of paintings and drawings by Paggi, and in particular the lighting effects, the movement of the figures and the sentimentality of the image can be compared with a Holy Family with musician angels (private collection; P. Pagano, ed., La pittura del '600 a Genova, Milan, 1988, no. 447).