Roman School, first half of the 17th Century

The painting should be bracketed in the corpus of works formerly given to Tommaso Salini, called Mao. It is now widely considered that these works are the product of several artists rather than a single hand. Quite a wide catalogue for Salini was first proposed by Markova and Gregori in 1989. More recently attempts have been made to separate the different hands, including by Dott. Franco Moro, to whom we are grateful for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this lot (see F. Moro, "Tanti maestri un solo nome: Tommaso Salini, Gli inizi a Roma del vaso di fiori", in Studi di Storia dell'Arte, no. 22, April 2012).