Lot 572: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION FRANCESCO CELEBRANO NAPLES 1724 - 1814 SAINT JOSEPH WITH THE

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION FRANCESCO CELEBRANO NAPLES 1724 - 1814 SAINT JOSEPH WITH THE INFANT CHRIST AND JOHN THE BAPTIST

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

On the art market, Rome (as Francesco Solimena);
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 19 May 1994, lot 317 (as Celebrano);
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 7 October 1994, lot 148 (as Celebrano), where acquired by the present owner.
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

N. Spinosa, Pittura napoletana del Settecento dal Rococò al Classicismo, Naples 1987, p. 89, cat. no. 64, reproduced p. 211, fig. 75.
CATALOGUE NOTE

Spinosa (see Literature) dates this painting to Celebrano's early maturity and compares it to the artist's two canvases in the Museum of Fine Art, Springfield (Mass.) (for which see Spinosa, op. cit., p. 88, cat. no. 62, reproduced p. 210, figs. 73 and 74).

76.3 by 61.5 cm.; 30 by 24 1/3 in.