Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

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Property from the Estate of Marilyn Schiff

Francesco Zugno

Reunion of Anthony and Cleopatra in Alexandria

Auction Closed

February 1, 04:16 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Marilyn Schiff

Francesco Zugno

Venice 1708 - 1787

Reunion of Anthony and Cleopatra in Alexandria


oil on canvas, shaped top

canvas: 56 ⅝ by 105 ⅛ in.; 143.8 by 267.0 cm.

framed: 63 ⅞ by 111 ⅞ in.; 162.2 by 284.2 cm.

With D'Atri, Paris;

With Brummer Gallery, New York, by March 1936;

With A. and E. Silberman Galleries, New York (inv. no. 2015-C), after 1938;

High Museum, Atlanta, by 1952 (inv. no. 50.33);

By whom anonymously deaccessioned ("Property of an Institution"), New York, Sotheby's, 3 June 1988, lot 86;

Where acquired.

G. Fiocco, "Aggiunte di Francesco Maria Tassis alla Guida di Venezia di Anton Maria Zanetti," in Rivista mensile della citta di Venezia 6 (1927), p. 145 (as Zugno);

Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico, exhibition catalogue, Chicago 1938, p. 32, cat. no. 42 (as Giandomenico Tiepolo);

Baroque Painting of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries and Dutch masters of the Seventeenth Century, exhibition catalogue, West Palm Beach 1949, n.p., cat. no. 25 (as Giandomenico Tiepolo);

R. Pallucchini, La Pittura Veneziana del Settecento, Bologna 1952, vol. II, p. 26 (as Zugno);

G.M. Pilo, "Francesco Zugno," in Saggi e Memorie di storia dell'arte 2 (1958-1959), pp. 343, 349, 363, cat. no. 31, reproduced fig. 34 (as Zugno);

B.B. Frederickson and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge 1972, p. 214 (as Zugno).

Saint Louis, City Art Museum, long-term loan, March 1936;

Kansas City, Nelson Gallery of Art, Anniversary Loan Exhibition: Venetian Paintings, Drawings, Prints of the Eighteenth Century, 28 November - 30 December 1937, nos. 44, 46 (as Giandomenico Tiepolo);

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico, 4 February - 6 March 1938, no. 42 (as Giandomenico Tiepolo);

West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery and School of Art, Baroque Painting of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries and Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, 1 - 20 February 1949, no. 25 (as Giandomenico Tiepolo).