Giovanni Battista Carlone (1603-1684)

We are grateful to Dr. Mary Newcome for confirming the attribution. The present picture is a variant of one by Carlone's near-contemporary, Gioacchino Assereto (born 1600) in store at the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa. Dr. Newcome points out that both paintings must be of the same date as Bernardo Strozzi's Paradise of c. 1620 in the Accademia Ligustica, Genoa (L. Mortari, Bernardo Strozzi, Rome, 1966, p. 112, fig. 267) and that Assereto's version probably precedes that by Carlone