Diana the Huntress: modelli

细节

Giambattista Pittoni (Venice 1687-1767)
Diana the Huntress: modelli
oil on canvas
28 x 11¼ in. (17 x 28.5 cm.)
a pair

来源

Valentine Cameron Prinsep, RA.
A.L. Prinsep Esq.
with Sabin Galleries, London, 1938-1952, (1952 cat., no. 12, pl. 7, as by Jacopo Guarana).

出版

F. Zava Boccazzi, Pittoni, Venice, 1979, p. 184, nos. 258 and 259, figs. 185 and 186.

注意事项

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拍品专文

First identified in 1976 by Antonio Morassi in an inscription on the photographic mount in the Witt library (where given to Giandomenico Tiepolo), the present pictures are modelli for the artist's frescoes painted in 1727 for the Villa of Antonio Widmann, at Bagnoli di Sopra near Padua. The frescoes, which form two ceiling panels in the loggia, closely follow the modelli. The preparatory works, now badly damaged, provide a clue as to the original state of the frecoes, particularly the second fresco where the lower section showing the putto and deer has been lost altogether. The handling in the present pictures is closely comparable with the treatment of the modello, in a private collection, Rovigo, for the ceiling fresco of Diana and Endymion in the same villa.