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Pastoral Scene
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta · 1740
Provenance
Ownership history
- Commissioned by Marshall Schulenburg, Venice, by 1743 [his inventory 1743, Royal Academy 1954–55, no. 510]; his heirs; sold to Mr. Greenwood in 1774 [Binion 1994, pp. 98–99]; his sale at Christie’s, London, April 13, 1775, no. 41 or 42; Guida da Faenza Collection; his sale, Rome, 1902 [letter from M. D. Koetser, dated February 27, 1936, in curatorial file]; 17th-Century Gallery, London, 1917 [unsubstantiated note in curatorial file and Maxon and Rishel 1970, p. 88]. Auction London, 1935; G. H. Winterbottom, London; Jacob Heimann, Milan, 1936 [letter from Heimann to Art Institute of Chicago, dated April 25, 1937]; M. D. and D. M. Koetser, London, 1936 [Koetser letter, cited above]; purchased by Art Institute, 1937.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Venice, Correr Museum, 1936–37.
- San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Venetian Painting: from the Fifteenth Century through the Eighteenth Century, June 25–July 24, 1938, no. 48.
- Toledo, Museum of Art, Four Centuries of Venetian Painting, March 8–31, 1940, no. 40.
- Venice, Palazzo Ducale, Dal Ricci a Tiepolo, June 7–October 15, 1969, no. 62.
- Chicago, Art Institute, Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, September 19–November 8, 1970; traveled to Minneapolis, Institute of Art, December 3, 1970–June 10, 1971, and Toledo, Museum of Art, February 7–March 21, 1971, no. 33.
- London, Royal Academy, The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, September 15–December 14, 1994 no. 79; Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, January 29–April 23, 1995.
- Paris, France, Grand Palais, Venice at Vivaldi and Tiepolo’s time, September 14 2018-January 21, 2019, cat. 50; Venice, Palazzo Ducale, Feb. 23- June 9, 2019.
Literature
Published references
- Tancred Borenius, “ Notes on Giovanni Battista Piazzetta,” Burlington Magazine 30, (January, 1917), pp. 10–16, ill.
- Rodolfo Pallucchini, Pantheon XVIII, 1936, p. 250, ill.
- Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin XXXI, (Chicago, 1937), pp. 98–100.
- Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, (Chicago, 1938), no. 22.
- Michael Levey, “A Note on Marshal Schulenberg’s Collection,” Arte veneta XII, (1958), p. 221.
- John Maxon and Joseph J. Rishel, Painting in the Eighteenth Century: Rococo to Romanticisim, exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, (Chicago, 1970), pp. 88–90, no. 33, ill.
- Brigitte Klesse, Katalog der Italienschen, Französischen und Spanischen Gemälde bis 1800 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Cologne, 1973), p. 96.
- Rodolfo Pallucchini, L’opera completa del Piazzetta (Milan, 1982), p. 388, fig. 621.
- Giambattista Piazzetta, Il suo Tempo, la sua scuola, exh. cat. (Venice, 1983), pp. 23, 102–103, ill.
- Rodolfo Pallucchini, La pittura del Settecento, vol. 1, (Milan, 1984), p. 388, fig. 621.
- Giancarlo Sestieri, La pittura del Settecento (Bologna, 1988), p. 131.
- George Knox, Giambattista Piazetta 1682–1754 (Oxford, 1992), pp. 184–98, fog. 134.
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