95 - Giuseppe Bonito (Castellammare di Stabia, 1707 – Naples, 1789) Woman with a Still Life in Her Lap (Allegory of Summer), datable to around 1730. Oil on canvas, 75 x 62 cm

Giuseppe Bonito (Castellammare di Stabia, 1707 – Naples, 1789) Woman with a Still Life in Her Lap (Allegory of Summer), datable to around 1730. Oil on canvas, 75 x 62 cm Provenance: Alessandro Romano Antichità, Florence; Casa Santangelo Collection, Naples. Literature: *Neapolitan Painting of the Eighteenth Century: From the Baroque to the Rococo*, N. Spinosa, Naples, 1988, color ill. p. 152, plate 71, entry p. 168; *Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Painting*, N. Spinosa, Naples, 1993. 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dated the painting to around the 1730s—a period marking the artist’s early maturity—and noted that it was a previously unpublished work, classifiable among the “many scenes of everyday life” through which Bonito achieved considerable success among the patrons of his time.In a subsequent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 that the work was by De Mura. CASA SANTANGELO COLLECTION