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Lot 56*

Attributed to Sebastiano Conca
(Gaeta circa 1676-1764 Naples)
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

8 December 2016, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Attributed to Sebastiano Conca (Gaeta circa 1676-1764 Naples)

The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
oil on canvas
82 x 75cm (32 5/16 x 29 1/2in).

Footnotes

Pentiments are evident in the present work where the artist has lowered the surface of the Christ child's hair; and where Saint John's cross has been shifted to the right.

We are grateful to Dr. Karin Wolfe for suggesting that the present painting is by an artist familiar with the work of Francesco Trevisani but that the technique and touches of red in the depiction of the flesh tones suggest closer affinities with the work of Sebastiano Conca. (1676-1764). A similar composition, on copper, 30.48 x 22.86, for example, was sold at Christie's, London, 9 December, 2005, lot 212.

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