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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) St John the Baptist before 1656 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Lot and his Daughters ca. 1635-45 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Portrait of a Boy before 1656 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Flora ca. 1645-50 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Christ at the Column before 1656 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Venus and Adonis before 1656 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Meeting of Jacob and Rachel ca. 1630-50 oil on canvas Pinacoteca della Città Metropolitana di Bari |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Rebecca at the Well before 1656 oil on canvas National Trust, Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, Wales |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Diana bathing, with Actaeon approaching before 1656 oil on canvas Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Judgment of Paris 1645 oil on copper Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) St Sebastian before 1656 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Vision of St Thomas Aquinas before 1656 oil on canvas Basilica di Santa Maria della Sanità, Naples |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Massacre of the Innocents ca.1640 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Massacre of the Innocents (detail) ca. 1640 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa) Massacre of the Innocents (detail) ca. 1640 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
"Pacecco de Rosa (1607-1656) was the son of the painter Tommaso de Rosa and trained with his stepfather, the Caravaggesque painter Filippo Vitale. Pacecco continued his studies under Massimo Stanzione, whose classical style was of tremendous importance to the development of his art. He was Stanzione's most talented pupil. . . . Pacecco's masterpiece, The Massacre of the Innocents in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with its bright palette and attention to detail, also strongly betrays the influence of his master's work from the 1630s. Pacecco's elegant secular paintings were highly valued by the nobility, and he also received several important ecclesiastical commissions in Naples."
– from biographical notes published by Sotheby's, New York