LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

19.37 in. (49.20 cm.) (height) by 30.51 in. (77.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

York, City Art Gallery, 1948;. Whitby Museum, 1954;. Mexico City, Chapultepec Castle, an exhibition devoted to this series of paintings, 1954;. Mexico City, the British Embassy, on loan 1954 - 1976

Literature:

H. Strickland,. Catalogue of the Pictures at Howsham , 1852, mss., recorded on the staircase;. A. Oswald, "Howsham Hall - II", in . Country Life , vol. LXXVII, 1935, pp. 221-223;. . Los Pinceles de la Historia. El Origen del Reino de la Nueva España, 1680-1750 , exhibition catalogue, Mexico City 1999, pp. 87-90;. N. Spinosa,. Pittura del Seicento a Napoli da Mattia Preti a Luca Giordano. Natura in posa, Naples 2011, p. 232, no. 211;. S. Carotenuto,. Francesco Solimena: Dall'attività giovanile agli anni della maturità (1674 - 1710), Rome 2015, p. 205, reproduced in color p. 207, figure 5.10;. N. Spinosa,. Francesco Solimena (1657 - 1747) e le Arti a Napoli, Rome 2018, pp. 240-1, no. 72b, reproduced p. 241 in color

Provenance:

Almost certainly acquired by Sir Hugh Cholmley, 4th Bt. (1632 - 1688);. Thence by descent at Whitby, through his only daughter Mary (1667 - 1748), wife of Nathaniel Cholmley;. Their son Hugh Cholmley, married to Catherine Wentworth, heiress to the Howsham estate, in 1741;. Thence by descent. The contents of Howsham Hall were sold in 1948, and the pictures were subsequently on loan (see. Exhibited );. Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 2 April 1976, lot 4;. With Simon Dickinson, London, 1998;. Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 17 December 1999, lot 61 (£34,500);. Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 6 June 2012, lot 94;. There acquired