
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
Private Collection, UK and thence by descent to the present owner
Solimena's somewhat simplified fresco of the present composition with a number of variations to the poses of several figures, such as the angle of horse's head, for example, is in the Chiesa di San Giorgio, Salerno. A bozzetto of the composition was recorded in the Corradini Collection in Naples in 1958 (see: F. Bologna, Francesco Solimena, Naples, 1958, p. 274) and there are two further small oils on canvas of the subject by Solimena which are published in the catalogue of the exhibition, L'idea del Barocco a Napoli. "Macchie" e disegni di Luca Giordano, Francesco Solimena e seguaci (1670-1790), curated by Enrico De Nicola at the Galleria Civica d'Arte, Cava de' Tirreni, 6 December 2014 - 18 January 2015, Cava de' Tirreni 2014, pp. 20-33, 86-87.
We are grateful to Professor Nicola Spinosa for his assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.