Resumen de Un nuovo disegno del giovane Solimena
The article presents an unpublished early drawing by Francesco Solimena which recently appeared on the art market with an attribution to the Lombard-Piedmontese School of the early seventeenth century. The sheet is in fact a preparatory study for the mounted knight inthe fresco of "Saints Thecla, Archelaisand Susanna Led to Martyrdom" in the church of San Giorgio in Salerno. A reconstruction of the artist's youthful phase as draughtsman enables the author to date this red chalk drawing to the years in which he was closest to the Baroque idioms of Pietro da Cortona and Luca Giordano, and it shows a close resemblance to drawings formerly in the Gere collection in London and the "Adoration of the Shepherds" in Bucharest.
