Lot 251: GIUSEPPE VERMIGLIO

GIUSEPPE VERMIGLIO ALESSANDRIA 1585 - CIRCA 1635 THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS oil on panel 16 by 20 3/4 in.; 40.6 by 52.7 cm.

We are grateful to Prof. Francesco Frangi for confirming the attribution to Giuseppe Vermiglio, on the basis of a photograph.

The composition of this painting relates to a larger scale work by Vermiglio, signed and dated 1622, in the Pinacoteca Brera, Milan (oil on canvas, 230 by 250 cm.). The present painting differs from the Brera version in the figures and animals at the right side of the composition. Several other small scale versions with the same composition as the present work are known and have been given to Bernardino Cesari (Arpino 1571 - 1622 Rome) by Herwarth Röttgen.(1)

1. See H. Röttgen, Il Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari D'Arpino, Rome 2002, pp. 525-526, figs. 12-14