Property from a Private Collection
Pompeo Caracciolo
The Virgin and Child
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Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Sold
25,400 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Pompeo Caracciolo
active Naples before 1620–after 1645
The Virgin and Child
signed lower right: Carraciolo
oil on canvas
unframed: 45.8 x 38.9 cm.; 18 x 15⅜ in.
framed: 63.2 x 57.2 cm.; 24⅞ x 22½ in.
Anonymous sale, Paris, Kahn & Associés, 27 October 2010, lot 40 (as attributed to Massimo Stanzione);
Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 17 October 2012, lot 752;
Where acquired by the present owner.
Formerly attributed to Massimo Stanzione (1585–1656), this work was identified by Nicola Spinosa as a painting by the little-known Neapolitan artist Pompeo Caracciolo. According to his early biographer, Bernardo De Dominici, he was the son of the celebrated Battistello Caracciolo (1578–1635), with whom he is said to have collaborated on several public commissions. This canvas is one of only three known works by the artist, and the only one executed on a small scale. The two others are monumental altarpieces, respectively: Saint Simeon recognising Jesus,1 in the Church of San Simeone Profeta, Marcianise, and The Vision of Saint Thomas, signed and dated 1645, in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Sorrento.
1 https://monumenti.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/marcianisimeone1.jpg
