Holy Family with St Anne, the Baptist and Zacharias Landscapes almost as if by accident

almost as if by accident

even whiles you looke upon it

is inspired by Raphael's fresco of the same subject in the Vatican Logge and shows the influence of Annibale Carracci and Domenichino

The attribution to Van Vries was proposed by Murray and was accepted by J

Catalogued as Dou (q

Holy Family with St Anne, the Baptist and Zacharias Landscapes almost as if by accidentAlthough 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.