Old Master Paintings, Part Two

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Lot 211
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Pietro Longhi Venice 1701- 1785

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Description

  • Pietro Longhi
  • An Interior with a boy-servant bringing a young lady a bonnet, an elderly lady seated nearby and a maid hanging laundry beyond ('La Modista')
  • oil on canvas, unframed

Provenance

With Anacleto Frezzati Antichità, Venice (according to a label on the reverse);
With Dr. Schäffer Gallery, Berlin.

Literature

Advertisement in The Burlington Magazine, vol. LVIII, no. 336, March 1931.

Catalogue Note

This composition is known in at least three other versions; one, of smaller dimensions, in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge (Mass.), inv. no. 1943. 118 (See T. Pignatti, Pietro Longhi, Venice 1968, p. 86, reproduced fig. 250); a second, of inferior quality, formerly in Palazzo Giovanelli, Venice (for which see A. Ravà, Pietro Longhi, Florence 1923, p. 102, reproduced); and a third, apparently the best, in the Aldo Crespi collection, Milan.