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GIACINTO DIANO (POZZUOLI 1731-1804 NAPLES) The present painting is a bozzetto for the altarpiece, dated 1771, for the
lateral choir walls of the Chiesa del Corpus Domini in Gragnano, Italy.
The Gathering of the Manna
oil on canvas We are grateful to Professor Nicola Spinosa for his assistance in cataloguing
42 x 29º in. (106.7 x 74.3 cm.)
the present lot.
$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, Paris.
with Heim Gallery, London, by 1977.
Property from the Collection formed by the British Rail Pension Fund;
Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1997, lot 105.
EXHIBITED:
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, on loan, 1982-1995.
LITERATURE:
N. Spinosa, Pittura napoletana del Settecento, Naples, 1987, pp. 120 and 268,
no. 145, fig. 180.