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Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

30.08 in. (76.40 cm.) (height) by 40.35 in. (102.50 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Condition:

framed

Provenance:

Private European collection, We are grateful to Nicola Spinosa for suggesting the attribution of the present painting after examination in the original., The present work is a bozzetto for the larger painting of Ecce homo, which is conserved in the basilica of Santa Maria dell’Assunta at Castel di Sangro (Abruzzo) and is a pendant to the Christ carrying the Cross with St. Veronica in the same church. The two works were commissioned to Francesco De Mura between about 1725-1727 for the consecration of the church of the Collegiata dell’Assunta., Two other versions of the present bozzetto are known: one, (62.2 x 74.9 cm) is in the Bob Jones University collection in Greenville, South Carolina, and another one (62.2 x 79.1 cm) is also in Greenville, ,in the Bob and Teresa Wilson collection (see,  In the light of Naples. The art of Francesco De Mura,  exhibition catalogue, London 2016, pp. 81-85). Francesco De Mura also painted abozzetto for the pendant composition with Christ carrying the Cross with St. Veronica, conserved in the Molinari Pradelli collection, Castenaso, Bologna