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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 26, 2012 | Sotheby's | New York | Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture | 71 | $****** - ****** | The Ridotto In Venice With Masked Figures Conversing |
paintings
30 x 41 cm (11.81 x 16.14 in)
oil on canvas
Villa Algarotti, Treviso
Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934), Paris
By descent to his eldest son Baron James de Rothschild (1878-1957), London
By inheritance to his widow Baroness Dorothy de Rothschild (1895-1988), London, by whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 19 April 1972, lot 17, for £32,000 to W.H. Patterson
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Christie's, 9 July 1993, lot 95, where acquired by the present collector.
G. Fiocco, in U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. XV, Leipzig 1922, p. 168;; G. Fiocco, Francesco Guardi, Florence 1923, pp. 68-9, no. 38, reproduced plate XXVIII;; G. Fiocco, "Il Ridotto e il Parlatorio del Museo Correr," in Dedalo, January 1926, pp. 544-46;; M. Goering, Francesco Guardi, Vienna 1944, pp. 26 and 78, reproduced plate 33;; Tiepolo et Guardi, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Galerie Cailleux, November 1952, under cat. no. 117, p. 72;; A. Morassi, "Novità su Francesco Guardi," in Arte Veneta, 1959-60, p. 167;; T. Pignatti, Il Museo Correr di Venezia, dipinti del XVII e XVIII secolo, Venice 1960, p. 97 (as "piuttosto vicino al Marcuola");; A. Morassi, Guardi. I dipinti, Venice 1973, vol. I, pp. 163 and 352, cat. no. 234, reproduced in colour (detail) p. 143, plate XXXIV, and reproduced in vol. II, as fig. 257 (image transposed with fig. 256);; L. Rossi Bortolatto, L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi, Milan 1974, p. 92, cat. no. 57, reproduced (erroneously) as no. 56;; A. Morassi, Guardi. I dipinti, Venice 1993, vol. I, pp. 163 and 352, cat. no. 234, reproduced in color (detail) p. 143, plate XXXIV, and reproduced in vol. II, as fig. 257 (image transposed with fig. 256);; D. Succi, Francesco Guardi. Itinerario dell'avventura artistica, Milan 1993, p. 226, reproduced in color on p. 227 (as by Gianantonio Guardi and datable to circa 1750);; M. Merling, in J. Martineau and A. Robison, The Glory of Venice. Art in the Eighteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 19 September - 14 December 1994; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 29 January - 23 April 1995, p. 455, under cat. no. 202 (listed under Francesco although "it is reasonable to conclude that these works are the production of the workshop run jointly by Antonio and Francesco");; F. Pedrocco, "Francesco Guardi e Pietro Longhi," in I Guardi: Vedute, capricci, feste, disegni e 'quadri turcheschi,' A. Bettagno, ed., Venice 2002, pp. 128 and 131, note 10 (as Francesco Guardi).
