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.
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.