Giuseppe Bonito

(Castellammare Di Stabia, 1707 - Napoli, 1789)

Probably portrait of Maria Felicia Cavaniglia, Duchess of San Vito. Oil on canvas, 85x63 cm.Within coeval frame. This opera in our opinion is to be included in the pictorial corpus of Bonito, a painter initially oriented towards a religious production of a solitary mold and then turn to the portrait genre to become a specialist. The painting shows strong tangencies with that depicting the Duchess of San Vito, Maria Felicia Cavaniglia, recently hesitated in Vienna (Dorotheum, December 19, 2016) both from a stylistic and iconographic point of view, to the point of believing that she is the same effigy younger than a few years.