(1663 Naples 1727)

Saint Elisabeth with John the Baptist.

Oil on canvas.

90 × 117.5 cm.

Provenance:
Private collection, Switzerland.

Our thanks to Prof. Riccardo Lattuada who has identified this work on the basis of a photograph as by the hand of the Neapolitan painter Nicola Malinconico.

Condition:
Oil on canvas, lined. Paint surface partly slightly thin with a fine network of craquelure. Slight colour abrasions along the edges.
Under UV: retouching along the edges as well as some retouching on the figures and in the background. Varnish appears in fluorescent green.
Dimensions with frame: 106 × 134 cm.