Attributed to Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, (Bologna 1654-1719)

Diana the Huntress with a putto

Diana the Huntress with a putto
oil on canvas
121.1 x 92.7cm (47 11/16 x 36 1/2in).

Provenance
Private Collection, UK, since 1971

A larger version of the present composition (196x152cm.) is in a private collection in Paris (see C. Thiem, Giovan Gioseffo dal Sole, Bologna 1990, p. 101, cat. no. Q18, ill. p. 28). In his Storia dell' Accademia Clementina di Bologna aggregata all' Instituto delle Scienze e dell' Arti of 1739, Giampietro Zanotti mentions that dal Sole painted a 'Diana con alcuni Amori' for the Principe Bolognetti.