The Marriage of the Virgin: a bozzetto

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Francesco Solimena (Canale di Serino 1657-1747 Barra)
The Marriage of the Virgin: a bozzetto
oil on canvas, unframed
29 x 39¾ in. (73.7 x 101 cm.)

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Sale room notice

We are grateful to Professor Nicola Spinosa for confirming the attribution on inspection of the original. We are also grateful to Professor Riccardo Lattuada for suggesting that the present lot is a replica, made in the artist's studio, of The Marriage of the Virgin in the Church of the Gesù delle Monache, Naples.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Professor Nicola Spinosa for confirming the attribution to Francesco Solimena on the basis of photographs. He suggests that the present picture is a bozzetto for the The Marriage of the Virgin, which, with its pendant The Annuciation, is in the Church of Gesù delle Monache, in Naples (see F. Bologna, Francesco Solimena, Naples, 1958, p. 259, fig. 99). Spinosa dates the pictures to shortly after 1693 and notes the underlying influence of Mattia Pretti.

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