# Portrait of a Girl, in Francesco Solimena

Francesco Solimena painted this in about 1700, aged about 38. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1700
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 56.3 × 43.2 cm (22 3/16 × 17 in.); Framed: 82 × 69.6 × 5.1 cm (32 1/4 × 27 3/8 × 2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1968.97
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Francesco Solimena](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/francesco-solimena), Italian, 1657–1747

Solimena was the dominant painter in Naples for half a century, continuing the grand decorative manner of Luca Giordano while giving it firmer drawing and stronger contrasts of light and shade.

3 works in the collection.

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