Sebastiano Ricci

Probably commissioned in by Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747), Venice, 1731;

Transferred after his death with other pictures from the collection to Hehlen, Germany, 1747;

His estate sale, London, Christie's, 13 April 1775, lots 37 and 38;

Private collection, Genoa;

Anacleto Frezzati, Venice, by 1976;

With Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd., London;

From whom acquired by the present collector, 1987.

Hanover, Forum des Landesmuseums; Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum, Venedigs Ruhm im Norden: die grossen venezianischen Maler des 18. Jahrhunderts, ihre Auftraggeber, und ihre Sammler, 3 December 1991 - 26 April 1992, no. 70.

P. Zampetti, "Due Baccanali di Sebastiano Ricci," in Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Studi su Sebastiano Ricci e il suo tempo, Udine 1975, Milan 1976, pp. 126-127;

J. Daniels, Sebastiano Ricci, Bath 1976, p. 156, cat. nos. 542 (a)-(b), reproduced figs. 57-58;

J. Daniels, L'opera completa di Sebastiano Ricci, Milan 1976, p. 136, cat. nos. 510-511, reproduced;

T. Wessel, Sebastiano Ricci und die Rokoko Malerei, Freiburg 1984, pp. 172-181;

A. Binion, La galleria scomparsa del maresciallo von der Schulenburg, exhibition catalogue, Milan 1990, pp. 84, 137, 140, 294;

M. Trudzinski and B. Schälicke (eds.), Venedigs Ruhm in Norden, exhibition catalogue, Hanover 1992, pp. 228-229, cat. no. 70;

R. Pallucchini, La pittura nel Veneto, Il Settecento, vol. I, Milan 1995, pp. 59-60;

A. Scarpa, Sebastiano Ricci, Milan 2006, pp. 326-327, 344, cat. nos. 521-522, reproduced p. 205, figs. 684, 686-687.