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91 x 70 cm
The painting is accompanied by a copy of an expert report by Professor Riccardo Lattuada, which confirms this attribution. The scholar finds comparisons between the figure of this Cleopatra and the Angels of the altarpiece depicting the Ransom of the slaves in Naples, Church of Santa Maria della Mercede and Sant'Alfonso de' Liguori , and the Ganymede now in a private collection. In all these examples cited, not only the typical physiognomies and compositions of the painter recur, but also his particular loose and flowing ductus, with thin layers of color, which often allow the preparation to emerge in the dark shades. For all these characteristics, the work can be dated to the last decade of the seventeenth century, in the artist's mature phase.