Attributed to the Master of the Cellini Madonna (active Naples c. 1625-c. 1645)

This Madonna and Child is a variant of the picture, of larger dimensions (127 x 101 cm.), formerly in the collection of Pico Cellini, Rome. The Cellini painting was included in the exhibition dedicated to Battistello Caracciolo, Naples, 1991, with an attribution to the so-called Master of the Cellini Madonna and dated to the end of the 1620s (see F. Bologna, Battistello Caracciolo e il primo naturalismo a Napoli, exhibition catalogue, Naples, 1991, p. 322, no. 2.91.).