Lorenzo Pasinelli Bologna 1629 - 1700

Relined. Dry canvas with brittle craquelure, now stabilized. A few chips of paint loss through canvas have not been repainted. The black background around the figure has more pronounced, raised craquelure. Brown touch-ups visible on the figure's neck. Under UV light: a long, vertical repair at lower right below foot; old inpainting cannot be seen anymore; touch-ups on figure do not fluoresce. Newer, smaller areas of inpainting scattered through background.
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Pasinelli, along with Carlo Cignani and Domenico Canuti, were the three main proponents of advanced painting in Bologna in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.  The artists studied with Simone Cantarini, Guido Reni's most distinguished pupil, and later with Flaminio Torri.  The painterly handling and the deep, luxuriousness of the color are characteristic of the artist.

We are grateful to Daniele Benati for confirming the attribution of the present painting based on photographs.