Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757) , Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757)

Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757)

Details

Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757)
Portrait of a woman, bust length
pastel
567 x 435 mm.

Provenance

Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
By descent to Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxony, on loan to the Dresden Gallery.
Count Palffy; Bad Pistyan, Czechoslovakia, 10 June-1 July 1924, lot 41, pl. V (with a Czech customs (?) stamp).
With Rausch, Berlin, 1927.
Anon. sale, Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 10 December 1940, lot 220, illustrated (2,500 Danish kronen for this and the preceding lot, bought by the father of the present owner).

Literature

Catalogue des Tableaux de la Galerie Electorale Dresde, Dresden, 1765, no. 108.
K. Woeverman, Katalog der Kniglichen Gemldegalerie zu Dresden, Dresden, 1877, p. 773.
H. Posse, Katalog der Staatlichen Gemldegalerie zu Dresden, Dresden, 1920, p. 295.
F.J.B. Watson, 'Two Venetian Portraits of the Young Pretender: Rosalba Carriera and Francesco Guardi', The Burlington Magazine, CXI, 1969, p. 334.
B. Sani, Rosalba Carriera, Turin, 1988, no. 317, pl. 277.

Lot Essay

Bernardina Sani notes the similarities between this sitter and Anna of Holstein, Countess Orzelska, also portrayed by Rosalba in a pastel now in the Gemldegalerie, Dresden, B. Sani, op. cit., no. 315, fig. 275. Anna of Holstein (1707-1769) was the natural daughter of Augustus II, father of Augustus III, and Henriette Renard. She married Duke Charles of Holstein Beck in 1730.

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