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Description: | A Group of Four Men seems to be an eighteenth-century copy of part of a lost work by the Neapolitan painter Francesco Solimena (1657-1747). The original scene, The Landing of Columbus on the Coast of America, survives in a replica (Wawel Castle Collections, Cracow, Poland) and in a copy by Jean-Francois de Troy (1679-1752) (Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris). In the Glasgow painting, the copyist took the central group and altered the arms of Columbus and the right hand of the figure at the back to create an acceptable composition. Solimena painted the original composition for the Sala del Consiglio of the Signoria in Genoa in 1728. The work was destroyed in 1777. The Glasgow variant could very well be French and possibly by De Troy. | Subjects: | figure; history | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Solimena, Francesco (Italian painter and draftsman, 1657-1747) Æ Attributed to after | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8813... | Go to resource |
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