Roman School, 18th Century

The canvas has a wax relining. The paint surface is largely secure although the paint is beginning to crack in some areas. The paint has been abraded in many areas and subsequently retouched. There ia also frame abrasion, particularly along the right edge. Inspection under UV light reveals retouchings scattered throughout, most notably along the lines of where the paint has cracked in the lower half of the painting. Offered in a gilded wooden frame with some paint losses and damages.
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The composition derives, in reverse, from Francesco Trevisani's painting of The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Joachim in the Oratory of the church of Santa Maria in Via, in Rome. The figure of Saint Anne is particularly similar to that in Trevisani's painting (see European Paintings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries: The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part Three, Ohio, 1982, p. 445, figure 193a).