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GIUSEPPE ZOCCHI (FLORENCE 1711-1767)

Lot 56
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ID 1358473
Lot 56 | GIUSEPPE ZOCCHI (FLORENCE 1711-1767)
Estimate value
$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
GIUSEPPE ZOCCHI (FLORENCE 1711-1767)
Florence, looking South with a view of the Piazza della Signoria with the Palazzo Vecchio and the Loggia dei Lanzi
oil on canvas
22 3/8 x 34 3/8 in. (57.8 x 87.3 cm.)




Provenance

(Possibly) Marchese Andrea Gerini (1691-1766), Florence.
Acquired by George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham (1760- 1830), while living in Florence at the villa Pasquale (now the villa Pratolino), probably in the 1780s, and by descent to his eldest son by his second marriage,
Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), Ashburnham House, Dover Street, 1873, and later at Ashburnham Place, Sussex (where it hung on the lower register in the Great Entrance Hall), and by descent to his eldest son,
Bertram Ashburnham, 5th Earl of Asburnham (1840-1913), Ashburnham Place, Sussex and by inheritance to his daughter,
Mary Catherine Charlotte, called 'Lady Catherine,' Ashburnham (1890-1953), Ashburnham Place, Sussex, by whose estate sold; [Sold by Order of the The Trustees of the Ashburnham Settled Estates and the Executors of Lady Catherine Ashburnham], Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1953, lot 51, for £550 to the following,
with William Hallsborough Ltd., London, 1953, from whom acquired by,
Sir Edward Donner, Berkshire.
with Harari & Johns Ltd., London, 1984, where acquired by,
Marco Grassi, New York, by 1994.
Anonymous sale; [Property from a Private Collection], Sotheby's, London, 11 December 2003, lot 44, where acquired by the following,
with Colnaghi, London, where acquired in 2008 by the present owner.



Literature

Inventory of household furniture and fixtures at Dover Street, London, 1830, listed as being 'from Villa Pasquale'.
C. Hussey, 'Ashburnham Place, Sussex - II', Country Life, CXIII, 23 April 1953, p. 1247, fig. 3.
Connoisseur, December 1953, illustrated.
Exhibition of Works of Art from private collections in the North West of England and North Wales, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1960, p. 37, under no. 131.
A. Morassi, 'Circa alcune opere sconosciute di Giuseppe Zocchi', Bollettino dei musei civici veneziani, VII, no. 1, 1962, p. 8.
M. Gregori, Firenze e la sua immagine. Cinque secoli di vedutismo, exhibition catalogue, Florence, 1994, p. 147, no. 82, reproduced pp. 148-149.
M. Gregori and S. Blasio, Firenze nella Pittura e nel Disegno dal Trecento al Settecento, Florence, 1994, pp. 192, 213, note 73, fig. 250.
A. Tosi, Inventare la Realtà. Giuseppe Zocchi e la Toscana del Settecento, Florence, 1997, pp. 81, 100, footnote 65, reproduced p. 77.
R. Contini, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Painting, London, 2002, pp. 370, 372, and 431.
Y. Elet, 'Seats of Power. The Outdoor Benches of Early Modern Florence', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2002, p. 447, fig. 6.
M. Ingendaay, 'I migliori pennelli'. I marchesi gerini mecenati e collezionisti nella firenze barocca, I, Milan, 2013, p. 108, fig. 61.



Exhibited

Florence, Forte di Belvedere, Firenze e la sua immagine. Cinque secoli di vedutismo, 29 June - 30 September 1994, no. 82.
Artist:Giuseppe Zocchi (1711 - 1767)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Cityscape
Place of origin:Italy
Auction house category:Paintings
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