The Gathering of the Manna

Details

GIACINTO DIANO (POZZUOLI 1731-1804 NAPLES)
The Gathering of the Manna
oil on canvas
42 x 29 1⁄4 in. (106.7 x 74.3 cm.)

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris.
with Heim Gallery, London, by 1977.
Property from the Collection formed by the British Rail Pension Fund; Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1997, lot 105.

Literature

N. Spinosa, Pittura napoletana del Settecento, Naples, 1987, pp. 120 and 268, no. 145, fig. 180.

Exhibited

Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, on loan, 1982-1995.

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Lot Essay

The present painting is a bozzetto for the altarpiece, dated 1771, for the lateral choir walls of the Chiesa del Corpus Domini in Gragnano, Italy.
We are grateful to Professor Nicola Spinosa for his assistance in cataloguing the present lot.

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