Giuseppe Bonito (Castellammare di Stabia, 1707 - Napoli, 1789)

Alessandro Romano Antichità, Florence;

Casa Santangelo Collection, Naples

Literature:

Pittura napoletana del Settecento: dal Barocco al Rococò , N. Spinosa, Napoli, 1988, ill. a colori pag. 152, tav. 71, Scheda pag. 168

In a 1988 publication, Professor Nicola Spinosa dated the painting to around the 1730s a period marking the artist’s early maturity—and noted that it was a previously unpublished work, classifiable among the “many scenes of everyday life” through which Bonito achieved considerable success among the patrons of his time.

In a subsequent study from 1993, the art historian proposed an alternative attribution, suggesting the work was by De Mura