ID 1071528
Lot 22 | ROSALBA CARRIERA (VENISE 1675-1757)
Valeur estimée
€ 60 000 – 80 000
Figure allégorique, la tête couronnée de laurier, tenant un livre
pastel, sur papier bleu, marouflé sur toile
64.7 x 52.5 cm (25 ½ x 20 ¾ in.)
Provenance
Vente anonyme ; Sotheby’s, New York, 29 janvier 1997, lot 96.
Literature
N. Jeffares, Pastels and Pastellists, édition en ligne, no J.21.1656, ill. (consulté en septembre 2023).
Exhibited
Madrid, Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza, El triunfo de Venus. La imagen de la mujer en la pintura veneciana del siglo XVIII, 1997-1998, no 18, ill.
Further Details
ROSALBA CARRIERA, AN ALLEGORICAL FIGURE, HER HEAD CROWNED WITH LAURELS, HOLDING A BOOK, PASTEL, ON BLUE PAPER, LAID DOWN ON CANVAS
Thanks to a recent discovery by Xavier Salomon, we now know that this allegorical portrait by the Venetian pastellist is related to at least two other works. Preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 53.942, 53.943), they are of identical dimensions, have the same numbering on the back of the stretcher and are framed in the same way (B. Sani, Rosalba Carriera 1673-1757. Maestra del pastello nell’Europa ancien régime, Turin, 2007, nos. 184a, 184b, ill.; Jeffares, op. cit., nos. J.21.158, J.21.1583, ill.). Bernardina Sani dates them to around 1724 (op. cit., p. 185).
By comparing the dimensions, the compositions, and the subjects of the three works, an Allegorical figure of Poetry (?) probably completed this series, which exists today in three versions: one in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karslruhe (inv. KH 674; see Sani, op. cit., no. 374, ill.; Jeffares, op. cit., no. 21.1646, ill.), the others in private collections (one recently in the sale Christie’s, Paris, 1 April 2011, lot 41; see Sani, op. cit., nos. 375, 377, ill.; Jeffares, op. cit., nos. J.21.1648, J.21.1651, ill.; and R. Enke and S. Koja, eds., Rosalba Carriera. Perfektion in Pastell, exhib. cat., Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2023, no. 152, ill.). However, none of these versions seems to have belonged to the same series as the Boston pastels and the one offered here, which is very finely executed and in a fine state of preservation. A pen drawing of the same composition as the work offered here was in the sale Dorotheum, Vienna, 22 April 2021, lot 146 (as Rosalba).
We are grateful to Xavier Salomon for his assistance in writing this note.
| Artiste: | Rosalba Carriera (1673 - 1757) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Peint, Pastel |
| Matériel: | Verre acrylique, Papier, Plastique |
| Lieu d'origine: | Italie, Europe |
| Artiste: | Rosalba Carriera (1673 - 1757) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Peint, Pastel |
| Matériel: | Verre acrylique, Papier, Plastique |
| Lieu d'origine: | Italie, Europe |
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