THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1699-1760)
Details
Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1699-1760)
Portrait of the Empress Elisabeth Christine of Austria, half length, in widow's weeds
with inventory number 160
28½ x 21 7/8in. (72.5 x 55.5cm.)
Portrait of the Empress Elisabeth Christine of Austria, half length, in widow's weeds
with inventory number 160
28½ x 21 7/8in. (72.5 x 55.5cm.)
Provenance
Painted for Field Marshal Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747), who paid the artist on 13 April 1745, and by descent
Literature
A. Morassi, Antonio Guardi al servizio del Feldmaresciallo Schulenburg, II, Emporium, CXXXI, May 1960, pp.203-4 and fig.24
A. Morassi, Guardi, Venice, 1973, I, pp.59, 331-2 and 517, no.127, and II, fig.149
A. Morassi, Guardi, Venice, 1973, I, pp.59, 331-2 and 517, no.127, and II, fig.149