Signed lower left: Luca Giord.
31 1/2 x 41 inches.
ProvenanceWells College Museum, Aurora (United States).Sotheby’s New York, Master Paintings And Sculpture: Part II, 29 January 2015. Lot 280.Literature
M. Milkovich, in Luca Giordano in America, exhibition catalogue, Memphis 1964, p. 38.O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Naples 1966, vol. I, p. 53, vol. II, p. 49, vol. III, reproduced fig. 89.
B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, pp. 85, 554.
O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, L'opera completa, Naples 1992, vol. I, p. 263, cat. no. A86.
Catalogue Note
This painting has been dated by Oreste Ferrari and Giuseppe Scavizzi to circa 1660 when Giordano was working in Naples experimenting continuously with a variety of styles, and bringing new light and color to Neapolitan painting.  He was influenced by artists such as Pietro da Corona, Peter Paul Rubens and Nicolas Poussin.