Christ Appearing in a Dream to Saint Martin

Artist Francesco Solimena Italian, 1657–1747

Datecirca 1733

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions39 1/2 x 49 1/2 in. (100.3 x 125.7 cm)
Frame: 47 1/2 x 57 in. (120.7 x 144.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Florence G. Montgomery

Object numberG.59.2.1

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Provenance[Possibly (the Neapolitan painter) Raffaele Carelli (1795-1864), who owned a bozzetto for the Certosa Dream of St. Martin that was cited in 1855-57 as in the palazzo Calabrito, Naples, "presso il signor Tharp, inglese.";] with Piero Tozzi Gallery, New York; February 1959; given by Mrs. Florence G. Montgomery, Greenwich, Connecticut, to NCMA, 1959

Published ReferencesEdgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 212. "Conservation," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1991-92), mentioned and illus. (b-w) 54. Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 196. Maria Alberto Pavone, Pittori Napoletani del Primo Settecento (Naples: Liguori Editore, 1997), 154, detail illus. (color) pl. 20.

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