Atelier de SALVI Giovanni Battista dit SASSOFERRATO (Sassoferrato 1609-Rome 1685) The Virgin with the sleeping child. Oil on canvas (Re-tooled; small gap towards the center; some restorations around the edges; old varnish soiled). 30,7 x 25 cm. Antique carved and gilded wood frame with flowers and acanthus leaves ; topped by a pediment with a flower basket, perhaps brought back. Repetition of a composition often treated by Sassoferrato, either in larger dimensions (Cesena, Urbino, Chambéry museums; 75 x 64 cm), or in intermediate dimensions (Madrid, Prado museum; 48 x 38 cm) or in smaller dimensions, identical to those of the canvas presented here (Paris, Hôtel Drouot, July 1, 2005) (Cf. Catalogue of the exhibition Sassoferrato Dal Louvre a San Pietro, no. 35, pp. 226 - 227 - Perugia, 2017).