GIOVANNI BATTISTA LANGETTI (GENOA 1635-1676 VENICE)

According to Marina Stefani Mantovanelli, this painting had been offered as the work of a seventeenth-century Flemish hand (loc. cit.). By the time of its sale in 1996, however, it had been recognized as the work by the North Italian Baroque painter Giovanni Battista Langetti (loc. cit.).