c. 1738
St. Philip Neri Adoring the Christ Child
Francesco ManciniItalian, 1679 - 1758
Although for many years this sheet was thought to be by the seventeenth-century Neapolitan painter Mattia Preti, it seems more likely that an old inscription on a margin applied to the paper identifies the author correctly as Francesco Mancini, a painter working more than a generation later than Preti in Rome and in the provinces of Emilia and the Marches rather than in Campania.
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