GIOVANNI BATTISTA CROSATO (Venice c.1685/6-1758)

Moses striking the Rock

Details

GIOVANNI BATTISTA CROSATO (Venice c.1685/6-1758)
Moses striking the Rock
oil on canvas
25¼ x 35½ in. (64 x 90 cm.)

Provenance

with Hazlitt Gallery, London, in 1962.
Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 21 April 1989, lot 79.

Literature

The Burlington Magazine (advertisement), June 1962.
A. Ballarin, 'Pittura Veneziana a London', Arte Veneta, XVI, 1962, p. 240.
T. Crombie, 'Baroque and Rococo at the Hazlitt Gallery', Apollo, LXXVI, 1962, p. 288.
E. Martini, La pittura veneziana del Settecento, Venice, 1964, p.174.
N.S. Harrison, The Paintings of Giovanni Battista Crosato, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1983, p. 140.

Exhibited

London, Hazlitt Gallery, Baroque and Rococo Paintings and Oil Sketches, May 1962, no. 5, plate 3A.

Sale room notice

Please note that an attribution to Giuseppe Antonio Orelli (1706-c. 1776) has been suggested by Prof. Ugo Ruggeri.

Lot Essay

Crombie (op. cit.) regarded the figures in the present lot as displaying an oriental lavishness which he regarded as typical of Crosato's work; he dated the work to the period of the artist's stay in Venice, circa 1740-50.

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