(Piano del Cilento 1662–1728 Naples)
Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul,
oil on canvas, 75 x 53.5 cm, framed

Provenance:
with Heim Gallery, London (1971);
Private collection, Rome

Exhibited:
London, Heim Gallery, Faces and figures of The Baroque, 9 November – 24 December 1971, no. 12

Literature:
Faces and figures of The Baroque, exhibition catalogue, London 1971,
p. 9, no. 12;
E. Schleier, Opere di Paolo de Matteis in Germania, in: P. L. de Castris (ed.), Scritti di storia dell’arte in onore di Raffaello Causa, Naples 1988, pp. 308 and 310, fig. 9

We are grateful to Riccardo Lattuada for confirming the attribution after examination of the present painting in the original and for his help in cataloguing this lot.
We are also grateful to Giuseppe Napoletano for his help in cataloguing the present painting.

The present painting relates to a preparatory drawing in the Hessisches Landesmuseum of Darmstadt. Due to its small dimensions, Schleier suggested that the painting could be a model for a bigger pala (see literature). Stylistically the present painting can be dated to the second decade of the 18th century. The beatification of Saint Vincent de Paul (1581–1660) began in Paris in 1705 and ended in Rome in 1729.