The two paintings are works by a distinguished eighteenth-century painter-Claudio Francesco Maria Beaumont, now considered the greatest Piedmontese painter of the eighteenth century and among the greatest at the Italian level. During his lifetime he enjoyed a wide and well-established reputation and was the head of a celebrated "school" of painting, from which many outstanding artists emerged; unfortunately, such notoriety in his time was not matched later, and until today, by in-depth and systematic studies of his human affairs and works.

As the first painter of the King of Savoy he painted many pictures, perhaps with variations, several times even for collectors who appreciated his refined compositions. With this in mind, we ...