Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1699-1760)

A Girl, bust length, with flowers

Details
Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1699-1760)
A Girl, bust length, with flowers
oil on canvas
23¼ x 19½in. (59 x 49.5cm.)
Provenance
Two wax seals on the stretcher showing the Crucifixion of Saint Andrew and compasses and a set square suggest that the picture may have belonged to a masonic lodge of Saint Andrew.
with the Heim Gallery, London (Faces and Figures of the Baroque,
9 Nov.-24 Dec. 1971, no. 37, illustrated, and illustrated in colour on the cover).
Literature
E. Martini, La pittura del Settecento veneto, Udine, 1982, p. 547, note 330, fig. 808.
F. Pedrocco in F. Pedrocco and F. Montecuccoli degli Erri, Antonio Guardi, Milan, 1992, p. 129, no. 49, and p. 196, fig. 66.

Lot Essay

Martini, loc. cit., points out that this is a faithful copy by Antonio Guardi of a picture by Giuseppe Nogari formerly in the Donà dalle Rose Collection (G. Lorenzetti and L. Planiscig, La Collezione Donà dalle Rose, Venice, 1934, fig. 60). Pedrocco, loc. cit., dates it to the end of the 1730s, when Guardi was executing copies for Field Marshal Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (for whom, see lot 78), including six 'teste' for which payments were made on 15 November, 29 November and 9 December 1739 (A. Binion, La Galleria scomparsa del maresciallo von der Schulenburg, Milan, 1990, p. 163); Schulenburg had acquired six similar pictures from Nogari himself on 15 January 1737 (ibid., p. 152).

For other paintings by Antonio Guardi probably after Nogari, see Pedrocco and Montecuccoli degli Erri, op. cit., pp. 128-9,
nos. 43-4 and 48, pp. 194 and 196, figs. 61-2 and 65.

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