PAOLO DE MATTEIS | THE FALL OF MANNA FROM HEAVEN

Marchesi Costa, Naples until 2004;

After which date acquired by present owner.

We are grateful to Nicola Spinosa for confirming the attribution to Paolo de Matteis after firsthand inspection and to Riccardo Lattuada and Giuseppe Napoletano for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs. Lattuada and Napoletano date this painting to circa 1693-5, while De Matteis was working for the Neapolitan Jesuits and the Viceroy of Naples, Francisco de Benavides. Spinosa dates the painting later, to the 1710s, on the basis of comparison with De Matteis' frescoes for San Nicola alla Carità in Naples and for Guardia Sanframondi in Benevento.