Holy Family with St Anne, the Baptist and Zacharias Size:medium Poussin stages the figures overlapping

Poussin stages the figures overlapping in a meticulously orchestrated arrangement

Possibly painted by a gifted amateur miniaturist

Carlo and Ubaldo

First attributed to Franceschini by D

Probably painted in the late 1640s

Holy Family with St Anne, the Baptist and Zacharias Size:medium Poussin stages the figures overlappingAlthough trained in Naples, by Francesco Solimena, Conca's career was based mostly in Rome, where he worked on a succession of important commissions for frescoes and altarpieces, while his smaller easel paintings were snapped up by collectors around Europe. This is a sketch for an altarpiece by Conca, signed and dated 1723, formerly in the Ortolani collection, Rome.