Alessandro Tiarini

(Bologna 1577–1668)
Saint Benedict supported by angels,
oil on canvas, 106 x 141 cm, framed

Provenance:
Private collection, Germany;
where acquired by the present owner

We are grateful to Daniele Benati for confirming the attribution of the present painting to Alessandro Tiarini on the basis of a high resolution digital photograph. He dates the present painting to the early 1640s.

Another painting of the same subject is mentioned in Benati’s monograph (see D. Benati, Alessandro Tiarini. L’opera pittorica completa e i disegni, in collaboration with B. Ghelfi, Milan, 2001, II, p. 124, no. 195, not illustrated, as Workshop of Alessandro Tiarini, private collection, La Spezia).