Girolamo Brusaferro (d.1760)

Coriolanus persuaded by his Family to raise the Siege of Rome

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Girolamo Brusaferro (d.1760)
Coriolanus persuaded by his Family to raise the Siege of Rome
oil on canvas
75½ x 112 7/8in. (192 x 286.5cm.)

Provenance

See previous lot.

Literature

R. Pallucchini, Studi Ricceschi, I - contributo a Sebastiano, Arte Veneta, 1952, p. 65, fig. 51.
G. Lorenzetti, Venezia e il suo Estuario, Trieste, ed. 1961, p. 426.
E. Martini, La Pittura Veneziana del Settecento, Venice, 1964, pp. 275-6.
C. Donzelli and G. M. Pilo, I Pittori del Seicento Veneto, Florence, 1967, p. 352.
J. Daniels, Sebastiano Ricci, Hove, 1976, pp. 140-1, no. 484(a).
J. Daniels, L'opera completa di Sebastiano Ricci, Milan, 1976, no. 646, illustrated.
E. Martini, La Pittura del Settecento Veneto, Udine, 1982, p. 474, note 44, fig. 456 (detail).

Lot Essay

See the note to the previous lot.

The subject of the present picture is given as The Family of Darius before Alexander except by Daniels, who points out that it represents Coriolanus being persuaded by the noblest women of Rome, led by his mother, wife and children, to raise the siege of Rome and retire into exile, as recounted by Livy.

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