Lot 201: Giacinto Diano, called il Pozzulaniello (Pozzuoli 1731-1803 Naples)

Giacinto Diano, called il Pozzulaniello (Pozzuoli 1731-1803 Naples)
The Judgment of Paris
oil on canvas
75.4 x 109.9cm (29 11/16 x 43 1/4in).

Footnotes

• Provenance
  Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 1999, lot 453
  
  We are grateful to Prof. Nicola Spinosa who has confirmed the attribution to Diano on the basis of a colour photograph and for suggesting a date of the late 1770s or early 1780s. The gold arabesque design around the painting is most probably by a different painter specialising in this discipline such as Gaetano Magri who decorated the royal palace of Caserta.