French School Of The 19th Century Attributed To Hortense Haudebourt Lescot - La Prière 1814 - Hst

French school of the early 19th century, prayer scene in a Neapolitan chapel. We see women praying kneeling before the altar of the Blessed Virgin, accompanied by a monk and two musicians in traditional costume. Typical of Neapolitan churches and monuments, we recognize in architecture the re-use of stones from ancient monuments on the paving of the ground (palmettes, frieze) or even the altar of the church. On the ground, an inscription in Roman numerals which is in fact the date of the painting: 1814. At the bottom a light source door opens on the charteuse San Martino of Naples on a background of blue sky, we see a Dominican monk taking care of 'a beggar.