Oil painting on canvas, depicting: "The Immaculate Conception", within a carved and gilded wooden frame. The painting is attributed to the great Corrado Domenico Nicolò Antonio Giaquinto (Molfetta, February 8, 1703 – Naples, April 18, 1766), an Italian painter. A prominent exponent of the Rococo style, he was one of the leading figures in 18th-century European painting and one of the most acclaimed artists of his time. Born to Francesco, a Neapolitan tailor, and Angela Fontana, he was the fifth of eight children. He left Molfetta for Naples in 1721, where he became a student of a follower of Francesco Solimena, the painter Nicola Maria Rossi, whose beautiful color Corrado "imitated with such similarity... that his copies were often mistaken for the originals". In 1727, he was in Rome, by now an independent painter, so much so that he opened his own workshop near Ponte Sisto, in the parish of San Giovanni della Malva, with his student Giuseppe Rossi, who was a witness at the master's wedding, celebrated on June 4, 1734, with Caterina Agata Silvestri from Rome; the two spouses went to live "under the parish of San Tomaso in Parione". His wife Caterina died in childbirth at the age of 22 on February 19, 1735: her son Gaspare also died with her. Corrado traveled extensively between Naples, Rome, Turin, but also abroad (Spain, Portugal, etc.). His works were very successful all over the world. In 1762, afflicted with health problems, Giaquinto returned to Naples to the court of Charles of Bourbon's son, Ferdinand IV. His last important commission was a cycle of canvases for the destroyed church of San Luigi di Palazzo, which had recently been restored by his friend Luigi Vanvitelli.