Pietro Longhi (Venice 1701-1785)

A priest holding his breviary

Details

Pietro Longhi (Venice 1701-1785)
A priest holding his breviary
black chalk on brown paper
13 x 8½ in. (330 x 216 mm.)

Literature

V. Moschini, Pietro Longhi, Milan, 1956, fig. 173.
T. Pignatti, Pietro Longhi, Venice, 1968, p. 119, fig. 309.

Lot Essay

Similar priests, some of them portraits of known individuals, appear in Longhi's semi-satirical painting of The Monks, Canons and Friars of Venice dated 1761 and now in the Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia, Venice (T. Pignatti, op. cit., fig. 221).

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