Follower of Viviano Codazzi

Possibly Pedro Núñez de Guzmán, Count of Villaumbrosa and Marquis of Montealegre (1615–1678), where recorded in his posthumous inventory of 1683 (see Literature);

David Niven (1910–1983), Hollywood, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat and Château-d'Œx;

Private collection, UK.

Possibly recorded in the 1683 inventory of the estate of Pedro Núñez de Guzmán, Archivo Histórico Provincial de Madrid, Madrid, MS Prot. 9.866, ff.899–909v, f.908v, no. 102 ('Mas otra Prespettiba de lienzo de Vara de Ancho orijinal del Viviano Con Unas figuras q desnudan a Un hombre [...]').

Depicting the interior of a Roman bath, this intriguing and unusual work is clearly indebted to the works of Viviano Codazzi (c. 1604–1670) executed in Naples in the 1640s, for example his monumental canvas depicting a comparable scene in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, with figures by Domenico Gargiulo (1609–1675).¹

¹ Inv. no. 1959.256; oil on canvas, 140 x 192.9 cm.; https://5058.sydneyplus.com/argus/final/Portal/Public.aspx?lang=en-US