Italian school, after GIOVANNI BATISTA SALVI "Il Sassoferrato" ; 19th century. "Dolorosa". Gouache on vellum. Size: 9,5 x 7,5 cm. The piece follows the iconographic model established by the artist Giovanni Battista Salvi, better known as "Il Sassoferrato" was an Italian Baroque painter appreciated, above all, for the creation of devotional images in which he united the Bolognese classicist current and the tenebrism of the Caravaggist tradition, with a great variety of models and much diffusion, which often makes it difficult to be able to attribute works to him with certainty. He began his training under his father, Tarquinio Salvi, and furthered it with Domenichino. He settled permanently in Rome and soon achieved a certain degree of success with his gentle painting, allowing him to establish an important workshop in the city that would repeat the master's style and outlines. His work is preserved in important institutions such as the National Gallery in London, the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, etc.