Portrait of a girl looking to the left, bust-length, wearing a blue mantle

Details

Rosalba Carriera (Venice 1675-1757)
Portrait of a girl looking to the left, bust-length, wearing a blue mantle
pastel
17 x 13¾ in. (430 x 347 mm.)

Provenance

Apparently Conte Pio de Persico.
with Ackermann's, London.

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Lot Essay

A pastel portrait of a girl in the same pose as the present drawing, but with her hands held differently and in less elaborate costume and headgear, is in a private collection in Los Angeles (B. Sani, Rosalba Carriera, Turin, 1988, no. 210, pl. 184).

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