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The Good Samaritan
Details
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Venice 1682-1754)
The Good Samaritan
oil on canvas, unlined
31 3/8 x 42 ¼ in. (79.5 x 107.2 cm.)
with Schulenburg inventory number '436' (lower left); with number '33' (on the reverse); inscribed 'Piazetta px.' (on the reverse)
The Good Samaritan
oil on canvas, unlined
31 3/8 x 42 ¼ in. (79.5 x 107.2 cm.)
with Schulenburg inventory number '436' (lower left); with number '33' (on the reverse); inscribed 'Piazetta px.' (on the reverse)
Provenance
Purchased by Field Marshal Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747), in 1741, by whom bequeathed to his nephew,
Christian Günther von der Schulenburg (1684-1765), Berlin, and by descent to,
Anonymous sale [The property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, London, 25 April 2008, lot 98.
Anonymous sale [Property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, London, 7 July 2017, lot 212, where acquired by the present owner.
Christian Günther von der Schulenburg (1684-1765), Berlin, and by descent to,
Anonymous sale [The property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, London, 25 April 2008, lot 98.
Anonymous sale [Property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, London, 7 July 2017, lot 212, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
Schulenburg libri-cassa, Hanover, Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv, MS, entry for 31 August 1741, recording payment of 10 zecchini to Schulenburg's secretary Johann Friedrich Werner for the purchase of 'due quadri...uno del autore Piacetta rappresenta Abel morto, e l'altro il Samaritano caduto tra i ladri'.
1741, 30 Giugno Venezia, Inventario Generale della Galleria di S.E. Maresciallo Co: di Schulemberg...La qual Galleria pricipio à formarsi l'anno 1724 ripartita coll'ordine che segue, Hanover, Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv, Dep. 82, Abt. III, N. 37, as part of the 'Quadri due pma maniera uno rapta Abel morto, e l'altro il Samaritano' by Piazzetta, valued at 100 ducats.
Inventaire de la Gallerie de Feu S. e. Mgr. Le Feldmarechal Comte de Schulenburg, annotated copy. Hanover, Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv, Dep. 82, Abt. III, N. 95. No. 444, as part of the two 'Tableaux prim maniére, l'un repress. Abel mort, l'autre le Samaritain' by Piazzetta.
A. Binion, 'From Schulenburg's Gallery and Records', The Burlington Magazine, May 1970, p. 301.
A. Binion, La Galleria scomparsa del maresciallo von der Schulenburg, Milan, 1990, pp. 96, 172, 236 and 284.
L. Moretti, 'Notizie e appunti su G.B. Piazzetta, alcuni piazzetteschi e G.B. Tiepolo', Atti dell' Ist. Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, 143, 1985, pp. 362-3.
G. Knox, Giambattista Piazzetta, 1682-1754, Oxford, 1992, p. 31, fig. 27.
J. Martineau and A. Robinson (eds.), The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, London, 1994, p. 169, note 14.
1741, 30 Giugno Venezia, Inventario Generale della Galleria di S.E. Maresciallo Co: di Schulemberg...La qual Galleria pricipio à formarsi l'anno 1724 ripartita coll'ordine che segue, Hanover, Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv, Dep. 82, Abt. III, N. 37, as part of the 'Quadri due pma maniera uno rapta Abel morto, e l'altro il Samaritano' by Piazzetta, valued at 100 ducats.
Inventaire de la Gallerie de Feu S. e. Mgr. Le Feldmarechal Comte de Schulenburg, annotated copy. Hanover, Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv, Dep. 82, Abt. III, N. 95. No. 444, as part of the two 'Tableaux prim maniére, l'un repress. Abel mort, l'autre le Samaritain' by Piazzetta.
A. Binion, 'From Schulenburg's Gallery and Records', The Burlington Magazine, May 1970, p. 301.
A. Binion, La Galleria scomparsa del maresciallo von der Schulenburg, Milan, 1990, pp. 96, 172, 236 and 284.
L. Moretti, 'Notizie e appunti su G.B. Piazzetta, alcuni piazzetteschi e G.B. Tiepolo', Atti dell' Ist. Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, 143, 1985, pp. 362-3.
G. Knox, Giambattista Piazzetta, 1682-1754, Oxford, 1992, p. 31, fig. 27.
J. Martineau and A. Robinson (eds.), The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, London, 1994, p. 169, note 14.
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