Lot 140: GIACINTO DIANO POZZUOLI 1731 - 1804 NAPLES

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

VENUS STEALING CUPID'S BOW

VENUS STEALING CUPID'S BOW

measurements note
135.5 by 134.5 cm.; 53 3/8 by 53 in.

signed lower left: G.Diano

oil on canvas

NOTE

We are grateful to Prof. Nicola Spinosa for endorsing the attribution to Giacinto Diano on the basis of a colour transparency. The painting is a late work by the artist, dating from the very end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th Century (just prior to his death in 1804).