AFTER CARLO DOLCI PORTRAIT OF SAINT PHILIP NERI (1515-1595)Oil on panel, octagonal 21.5 x 17cm (8¼ x 6½ in.)Provenance: Sale, Hampel, date unknown, lot 679After the painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Alongside Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Philip Neri was one of the most influential figures of the 17th-century Counter-Reformation. He founded the Congregation of the Oratory, a community of secular priests focused on prayer and pastoral care. Their mother church is Santa Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova) in Rome, next to the Oratorio dei Filippini, designed by Francesco Borromini.
Oil on panel, octagonal