Follower of Giuseppe Cesari, called Il Cavalier d'Arpino

Eva and Phillip Godfrey, New York, by circa 1920;
Thence by descent to the present owner. 

Oil on canvas, lined. There is white paint splatter over the reverse of the canvas. The surface is flattened and very dirty. There are two small losses in the tree above the figures. There is a visible bench-shaped repaired tear in the tree foliage in the upper right corner. Under UV, the varnish is difficult to read through though there are a few scattered visible spots of inpainting in the sky.
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This composition is based on a slightly smaller autograph work by Giuseppe Cesari, now in a Roman private collection (88.5 by 119 cm.; see see H. Röttgen, Il cavalier Giuseppe Cesari D'Arpino, Un grande pittore nello splendore della fama e nell' incostanza della fortuna, Rome 2002, p. 415, cat. no. 177). While the subject matter has been debated, Röttgen proposes that the work depicts Jupiter, accompanied by the eagle, chasing Juno, represented by the crab at her feet.