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Portrait of Marshal von der Schulenburg
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta · c. 1735
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by the artist to Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (died 1747), Venice [invoice]; by descent, Schulenburg family, Germany and Switzerland, to around 1971 [a letter from the Paul Drey Gallery dated May 24, 1971 in curatorial file]; sold to the Paul Drey Gallery, New York, by 1971 [letter mentioned above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1971.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 14-15, cat. 4 (ill.), by Harold Joachim.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "European Portraits 1600-1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 8-September 11, 1978, cat. 26.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 99, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C..
- Venice, Fondazione Giogio Cini, "G. B. Piazzetta. Disegni, Incisioni, Libri, Manoscritti," 1983, cat. 47.
- Washington, D.C, The National Gallery of Art, "A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books: Piazzetta," November 20, 1983-February 26, 1984, cat. 37.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 44-45, cat. 12 (ill.), by Martha Tedeschi.
- Hannover, Landesmuseums, "Venedigs Ruhm im Norden," December 3, 1991-February 2, 1992, cat. 130D; also traveled to Ehrenhof, the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, February 16-April 26, 1992.
Literature
Published references
- Inventaire de la Gallerie de Feu S. E. Mgr. Le Feldmarechal Comte de Schulenburg, p. 9.
- Antonio Morassi, "Settecento Inedito," Arte Veneta, 6 (1952), pp. 85-91, no. 82 (ill.).
- Antonio Morassi, "I Disegni del Piazzetta nella Galleria Schulenburg."
- Rodolfo Pallucchini, Piazzetta (Milan, 1956), no. 147 (ill.).
- Alice Binion, "From Schulenburg's Gallery and Records," The Burlington Magazine, 112 (May 1970), p. 301
- The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1971), p. 31.
- Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 86 (February 1973), p. 129, no. 458 (ill.).
- Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Seventeenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1F2.
- Rodolfo Pallucchini, L'Opera Completa del Piazzetta (Milan, 1982), no. D3 (ill.).
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument:’ The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 5-15, fig. 5.
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