Alessandro Longhi (Venice 1733-1813)
PROPERTY FROM VILLA AGNESI IN MONTEVECCHIA, LOMBARDY (LOTS 219-231 & 300-327)
Alessandro Longhi (Venice 1733-1813)

Portrait of a gentleman, full-length, in a powder-blue suit and coat, holding a tricorn hat and gloves, the Venetian Lagoon beyond

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Alessandro Longhi (Venice 1733-1813)
Portrait of a gentleman, full-length, in a powder-blue suit and coat, holding a tricorn hat and gloves, the Venetian Lagoon beyond
oil on canvas
79 ¾ x 44 7/8 in. (202.5 x 113.9 cm.)
Provenance
Alessandro Brass , Venice, 1941 (as Pietro Longhi), and by descent to,
Italiaco Brass, Venice, before 1960 (as Alessandro Longhi), and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 December 2005, lot 324 (£27,600).
Literature
R. Pallucchini, La pittura veneziana del Settecento, Venice and Rome, 1960, p. 217, fig. 569.
T. Pignatti, Pietro Longhi, Venice, 1968, p. 139, under 'Pitture attribuite [a Pietro Longhi]' as 'Alessandro Longhi'.
Exhibited
Venice, Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, 1934, no. 76.
Rome, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Mostra di pittura veneziana del Settecento, December 1941, no. 56 (as Pietro Longhi).

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