JOHANN RICHTER (STOCKHOLM 1665-1745 VENICE)

Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
Auction dateClassic
02.07.2024 19:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
ID 1239207
Lot 26 | JOHANN RICHTER (STOCKHOLM 1665-1745 VENICE)
JOHANN RICHTER (STOCKHOLM 1665-1745 VENICE)
Venice, the Piazzetta looking south from the Basilica di San Marco with the Biblioteca and a crowd gathered to watch a Commedia dell'arte performance
oil on canvas
48 1/8 x 63 ½ in. (122.3 x 161.3 cm.)




Provenance

Annie Cottenet Schermerhorn (1857-1926), wife of John Innes Kane (1850-1913), by whom bequeathed to the following in 1926,
The Cooper Union Museum (now the Cooper Hewitt Museum), New York, by whom sold at the following,
Anonymous sale [The Property of an American Institution]; Sotheby's, London, 26 March 1969, lot 23, as 'Luca Carlevaris', (£15,000 to Marshall).
with Colnaghi, London, 1974.
Private collection, Switzerland, by June 1978.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 July 1980, lot 129, as 'Luca Carlevarijs'.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 24 May 1991, lot 74, as 'Luca Carlevarijs', when acquired for £451,000 by,
J.E. Safra (b. 1940); Sotheby's, London, 5 July 2017, lot 23, when acquired by the present owner.



Literature

R. Pallucchini, 'Due Vedute del Carlevarijs', Studi di Storia dell'Arte in onore di Vittorio Viale, Turin, 1967, pp. 52-56, fig. 1, as 'Luca Carlevarijs'.
A. Rizzi, Luca Carlevarijs, Venice, 1967, pp. 63 and 92, fig. 153, as 'Luca Carlevarijs' with an unspecified collaborator.
R. Pallucchini, 'Schede Venete Settecentesche', Arte Veneta, XXV, 1971, pp. 163-164, note 20, as 'Luca Carlevarijs'.
E. Martini, La Pittura del Settecento Veneto, Udine, 1982, p. 489, under note 116, as 'Luca Carlevarijs'.
I. Reale, 'Gio. Richter, svezzese, scolare di Luca Carlevariis', in I. Reale and D. Succi eds., Luca Carlevarijs e la veduta veneziana del Settecento, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1994, pp. 118, 120, 126 and 128, notes 15, 17 and 24, fig. 9.
R. Pallucchini, ed., La pittura nel Veneto. Il Settecento, I, Milan, 1994, pp. 188 and 191, fig. 294, as 'Luca Carelvarijs'.



Exhibited

Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, An Exhibition of Reflections of The Italian Comedy, 21 January-23 February 1951, no. 17, as 'Luca Carlevarijs'.
Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; and Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Canaletto, 17 October 1964-28 February 1965, no. 131, as 'Luca Carlevarijs' (cat. by W.G. Constable).
Pfäffikon, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum and Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 18 June-5 November 1978, Art Vénitien en Suisse et au Liechtenstein, no. 158, as 'Luca Carlevarijs'.
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