ATTRIBUTED TO GIUSEPPE ASSERETO (ACTIVE IN GENOA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY)

Long recognized as a picture painted in the close circle of the Genoese artist Gioacchino Assereto, Tiziana Zennaro published this Ecce Homo twice (in 2009 and 2011) with the assignation 'Master of San Giacomo della Marina'. A number of works have been grouped under this figure and the artist has been tentatively identified as Assereto's son, Giuseppe, who died very young and about whom very little is known (Zennaro, 2009, loc cit.).