Oil on canvas, unsigned, feigned oval, inscribed to the verso "Opera originale di Francesco Solimena / Carlo Siviero," presented in a later gilt frame.

Stretcher size 19 x 15 in.; Frame dimensions 30 x 26 in.

We wish to thank Professor Nicola Spinosa for his assistance in cataloguing this lot from a photograph. Prof. Spinosa believes it was executed by a painter who trained in Solimena's atelier, perhaps Paolo De Falco, after 1700.

Stable allover craquelure; surface grime; some paint loss to perimeter of canvas; taped corner edge of canvas.