Jacopo Amigoni (? c. 1685-1752 Madrid)

We are grateful to Annalisa Scarpa for confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph (written communication, 7 April 2015). Dr. Scarpa suggests that this “piccolò, ma prezioso dipinto” may have been painted in Venice, after Amigoni’s return from England, around the time that he painted the altarpiece for the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Consolazione (called della Fava). She further notes that the lifelike treatment of the putti recalls the handling of the profane angels in Amigoni’s mythological fables from his English period. For this reason, she suggests that the present modello may have been painted shortly before Amigoni’s Madonna della Fava.