initialled 'A.M' (lower right)oil on canvas Unframed: 90.5 x 75.1 cm. (35 5/8 x 29 1/2 in.) Framed: 103.2 x 87.9 cm. (40 5/8 x 34 1/2 in.)Provenance:Private Collection, U.K.Notes:A Neapolitan genre painter, Mollica was active in Naples in the second half of the 19th Century, and his depictions of figures such as the present example are typical of the Southern Verisimo style.