Carlo Francesco Nuvolone

Anonymous sale, Genoa, Wannenes, 21 March 2018, lot 644, for €16,000;

Where acquired by the present owner.

This painting can be dated to Carlo Francesco Nuvolone's youth, when the artist's work still reflected the influence of Giovanni Battista Crespi, called il Cerano (1575–1632), and Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574–1625). Both painters were described as models for Nuvolone during his formative years by eighteenth-century historian Pellegrino Orlandi.¹

We are grateful to Professor Francesco Frangi for endorsing the attribution to Nuvolone on the basis of digital images. He dates the painting to around 1630.

¹ P. A. Orlandi, Abedecadario pittorico, Naples 1753, p. 104.