GIUSEPPE CESARI, CALLED CAVALIERE D'ARPINO | THE DEAD CHRIST SUPPORTED BY GOD THE FATHER AND TWO ANGELS

We are grateful to Dr. Marco Simone Bolzoni, who had previously endorsed the attribution to the Cavaliere d'Arpino. The artist likely painted it late into his career, as it resembles an autograph painting of the same subject from circa 1630-35 in the Fondazione Sgarbi-Cavallini.¹ 

We are also grateful to Professor Herwarth Röttgen for suggesting an alternate attribution to Bernardino II Cesari (Rome 1623 - 1703) on the basis of photographs. He was the second son of Cavaliere d'Arpino, and the successor to his father's studio.

1. Oil on panel, 44.6 by 55.8 cm. See H. Röttgen, Il Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari D'Arpino, Rome 2002, p. 470, cat. no. 251, reproduced.