Year: 18th century Size: 85cm x 69cm Medium: Oil on canvas Description: Extraordinary work attributed to Salvador Maella (Valencia 1739 - Madrid 1819). Spanish painter, printmaker and illustrator. This work is an oil on canvas, a particular provenance that represents the Marian iconographic theme of "The Assumption of the Immaculate Virgin Mary", a work of excellent craftsmanship, great balance in composition, loose brushstrokes and a masterly pictorial body. Sweetness and softness in the expression of the Virgin as well as of the angels. The work has been restored in 2004 and the professional report is attached. The frame is from the 18th century in fine gold burnished with agatha stone, cornucopete with a scallop framed in pebbles. Salvador Maella was together with Goya the only two chamber painters of King Carlos IV. He had an excellent training in the most important Academies and Art Schools in Spain. He was also trained in Rome. He was one of the most prominent of Antonio Raphael Mengs's circle of "protégés" , until he took up his post once the teacher retired. Canvas measurements: 85cm (height) x 69cm (width)