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Interior: A Sultana taking Coffee in the Harem
Provenance
One of more than forty cabinet pictures of Turkish highlife commissioned by Field Marshall Matthias Johann, Graf von der Schulenburg (d. 1747) Venice. By descent to his nephew Christian Gunther von der Schulenburg, transferred from Venice to Hehlen, near Hannover. By descent in the Schulenburg family until c. 1952 or shortly thereafter. Sold by Count Johann Heinrich von der Schulenburg. Private collection, Switzerland. Wildenstein and Co., from March , 1957 sold to Mrs. Joseph Regenstein, 1964. Gift of Mrs. Regenstein, 1964.
Exhibition history
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Guardi Family,1958, no. 21. London, Wildenstein and Co., Ltd., Paintings and Drawings by Continental Masters, XVI-XXth Centuries, no. 21. Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini Instituto di Storia dell’Arte, Franceso Guardi: Vedute, Capricci, Feste, August 28-November 28, 1993, cat. 6. Marseille, France, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Odalisques - du pittoresque au pictural, October 14, 2000 - January 8, 2001; Barcelona, Centre de Culture Contemporaire, February 13-April 13, 2001.
Publications
F.J.B. Watson, "A series of 'Turqueries by Francesco Guardi," Baltimore Museum of Art News Quarterly, Vol. 24, no. 1 (1960), p. 8, fig. 9. "Continental Masters at Wildenstein's," Apollo, 72 (1960), p. 11. Wildenstein, New York, 1960, Important Paintngs and Drawings by Continental Masters, XVIth-XXth Centuries, p. 6, no. 21, ill. The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1963-64, p. 19, ill. p. 14. Antonio Morassi, Guardi: Antonio e Francesco Guardi, Venice, c. 1973, pp. 120, 328, pl. 123. John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York, 1979, pp. 159, 160. Filippo Pedrocco and Federico Montecuccoli degli Erri, Antonio Guardi, Milan, 1992, cat. no. 62, fig. 80. Illeana Chiappini di Sorio, “Alcune osservazioni sulle ‘turcherie’,” in Alessandro Bettagno, ed., I Guardi: Vedute, capricci, feste, disegni e “quadri turcheschi” (Venice, 2002), p. 175, fig. 200. Giuseppe Maria Pilo, “Il gioco delle parti nei quadri turcheschi dei fratelli Guardi,” in Alessandro Bettagno, ed., I Guardi: Vedute, capricci, feste, disegni e “quadri turcheschi” (Venice, 2002), p. 225, fig. 200. Luca Scarlini, “Alpi d’Oriente: Carl Henrici e le turcherie,” in Bolzano, 1700–1800, exh. cat. (Galleria civica and Palazzo Mercantile, Bolzano, 2004), p. 258, fig. 2; German trans. (Galleria civica e Palazzo Mercantile, Bolzano, 2004). Emmanuelle Peyraube, Le harem des Lumières: l’image de la femme dans la peinture orientaliste du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 2008), p. 63, ill. Sotheby's, New York, The Courts of Europe, sale cat. (Sotheby's, January 30, 2014), p. 114, under lot 133.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699–1760)
- Date
- 1742–43
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 46 × 63 cm (18 1/16 × 24 3/4 in.); Framed: 65.5 × 84.8 × 10.8 cm (25 3/4 × 33 3/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Joseph Regenstein
- Accession no.
- 1964.243
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