Holy Family with St Anne, the Baptist and Zacharias Size:medium Carlo and Ubaldo

Carlo and Ubaldo

though the identification of one of the figures as the goddess Ceres is doubtful

A signature

Poussin stages the figures overlapping in a meticulously orchestrated arrangement

and on the left the flagship of the Dutch Mediterranean squadron

Holy Family with St Anne, the Baptist and Zacharias Size:medium Carlo and UbaldoAlthough 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.