Today we are proposing this beautiful glass painting depicting a cherub figure celebrating the Virgin. The painting shows high pictorial qualities attributable to the style and technique of the Neapolitan painter Francesco Solimena (1657 - 1747), and therefore was probably made within his workshop.
It is a fragment of an Immaculate Conception, as can be seen from the crescent moon to the right of the dancing cherub. In fact, it would have been a large painting of this subject executed on glass. The fragility of this medium did not allow it to be preserved until today, but this beautiful element of Neapolitan painting remains, which clearly documents the long artistic tradition that linked this famous workshop of Solimena to glass painting.
The painted glass fragment measures: 13cm x 22 cm high; the measurements including the contemporary frame are 37cm x 47cm.
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