LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on copper

Size Notes:

copper: 15 1/4 by 20 in.; 38.7 by 50.8 cm.

Description:

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Condition:

framed: 22 1/2 by 27 1/2 in.; 57.2 by 69.9 cm. To request a condition report for this lot, please contact [email protected].

Literature:

F. Bologna, "Solimena's Solomon Worshipping the Pagan Gods in Detroit," in The Art Quarterly 30 (1968): pp. 35 - 62 (confuses this lot with painting formerly at Chatsworth and believes it was the prime version); N. Spinosa, "More Unpublished Works by Francesco Solimena," in The Burlington Magazine 121, no. 913, Special Issue Devoted to Neapolitan Art in the Eighteenth Century (April 1979), p. 212, reproduced fig. 4; N. Spinosa, Pittura napoletana del Settecento, dal Barocco al Rococò, Naples 1986, p. 104; Hazlitt, Gooden, and Fox, Italian Paintings, exhibition catalogue, London 1992, under cat. no. 8; F. Bologna in Settecento Napolteano: sulle ali dell'aquila imperiale 1707 - 1734, exhibition catalogue, Naples 1993, pp. 194, 196; N. Spinosa, Francesco Solimena (1657 - 1747) e le Arti a Napoli, Rome 2018, vol. I, p. 236.

Provenance:

Private collection, Rome; Anonymous sale, Los Angeles, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 27 May 1974, lot 10 (as Nicholas Vleughels); There acquired.