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Lot Essay
Giuseppe Scavizzi kindly confirmed the attribution, on the basis of a photograph, in a letter dated 20 November 1997. He connects the drawing with a picture in a private collection in Sevilla datable 1670.
Executed a few years later and close in composition to the drawing is a painting in the Muse des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Naples, 1992, no. A234, fig. 310. The canvas is recorded by Baldinucci in his Vita di Luca Giordano pittore napoletano (Manuscript dated 1713-21 in the Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence) as being executed for Simon Giogali in Venice at the time as Giordano was painting the altarpiece for Santa Maria della Salute, dated by Ferrari and Scavizzi to 1672-5.
Executed a few years later and close in composition to the drawing is a painting in the Muse des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Naples, 1992, no. A234, fig. 310. The canvas is recorded by Baldinucci in his Vita di Luca Giordano pittore napoletano (Manuscript dated 1713-21 in the Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence) as being executed for Simon Giogali in Venice at the time as Giordano was painting the altarpiece for Santa Maria della Salute, dated by Ferrari and Scavizzi to 1672-5.