Details
Antonio Pellegrini (Venice 1675-1741)
The Assumption of the Virgin
oil on paper laid down on panel, painted shaped top -- a modello
155/8 x 95/8 in. (39.8 x 24.5 cm.)
the reverse of the panel incised with the coat-of-arms of the city of Antwerp and the panel maker's monogram 'VHB'
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 2 November 1962, lot 161 as 'C. Giaquinto' (260 gns. to Wengraf).
Eric Young, London; Christie's, London, 8 May 1987, lot 52 (£4,500 to the following)
Julius Böhler, Munich; his sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 14 May 1994, lot 54.
Literature
E. Young, 'Some Pellegrini Sketches and their Chronology', Apollo, August 1965, p. 105, pl. 3.
G. Knox, in the catalogue of the exhibition, Pellegrini in Deutschland, Venedigs Ruhm im Norden, Hanover and Düsseldorf, 1991-1992, p. 71, pl. 22.
B. Aikema and E. Mijnlieff, 'Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini 1716-1718. A Venetian Painter in the Low Countries', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboeck, XLIV, 1993, p. 237, no. 26.
G. Knox, Antonio Pellegrini 1675-1741, Oxford, 1995, pp. 32-34, 132, 135, pl. 109 and 246, P. 271.
A. Bettagno 'Catalogo delle opere', Il maestro veneto del Rococò alle corti d'Europa, Venice, 1998, p. 148, pl. 22.
Exhibited
Barnard Castle, Bowes Museum, on loan 1965.
Northampton, Central Museum, on loan 1970-1987.
Padova, Palazzo della Ragione, Antonio Pellegrini: il maestro veneto del rococò alle corti d'Europa, 20 November 1998-10 January 1999, no. 22.
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