Giovanni Battista PACE (Rome 1650-1699) Lot n° 42

The rest during the flight in Egypt Canvas 61,5 x 73 cm Without frame Bibliography: Catalog of the exhibition Pier Francesco Mola, Milan, 1989, p. 84, reproduced fig. 15. Our painting, which was attributed to Puget around 1978, belongs to a group of four works, identified a few years ago as being by Giovanni - Battista Pace. The flight into Egypt was a theme particularly appreciated by the entourage of Pier - Francesco Mola, of whom Pace was one of the most faithful pupils. However, he frees himself from the influence of his master, breathing a dynamism of his own into his composition.