detail:

 
Coloured crayons heightened with white lead, 269 x 212 mm, signed at the bottom left: »D'Auria«.

F. Capobianco characterised D'Auria a gifted portraitist. Many of his early works are now lost, later works were bought by the court of Naples.

Condition:
The paper slightly undulating. Verso: remains of an old mount.

General literature:
F. Capobianco, in: Saur, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, Vol. 24, page 397.