# Jacopo Butera, in 17th-century Italy

Francesco Solimena painted this in about 1695, aged about 33. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1695
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 117 × 91.6 cm (46 1/16 × 36 1/16 in.); Framed: 116.9 × 91.8 × 2.6 cm (46 × 36 1/8 × 1 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.304
- 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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