拍品 39
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Roman School, early 17th Century
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Roman School, early 17th Century

Melpomene

細節
Roman School, early 17th Century
Melpomene
oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 21¼ in. (64.8 x 54 cm.)
出版
R. Lattuada, Francesco Guarino da Solofra nella pittura napoletana del Seicento, Naples, 2000, pp. 276-7, no. G58, as possibly by 'Mattia Preti'.

拍品專文

This painting has an historical attribution to the Neapolitan follower of Cavallino, Francesco Guarino, to whom it is attributed in a file at the Frick Art Reference Library. Lattuada, in his monograph on Guarino (op. cit.) rejected that attribution and proposed - on the basis of an old black and white photograph - that it might be an extremely early Roman work by Mattia Preti. Roberto Longhi (in a letter dated 5 June 1967) wrote 'Probably it is by a painter working in Rome about 1630, possibly by Pier Francesco Mola'.