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

Carlo and Ubaldo

Jan Both is known to have collaborated with figure painters on some works

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

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.