A Young Lady with a Parrot

Provenance

Probably private collector, United Kingdom, by 1896 [see auction at Robinson and Fisher, London, Feb. 27, 1896, lot 125]. Maurice Gangnat, Paris (died 1924) by 1908; Casimir S. Stralem, New York; Donald S. Stralem (died 1976), New York; by descent to his wife, Mrs. Jean I. Stralem (died 1994), New York; sold, Christie’s, London, December 13, 1984, lot 181; David Tunick Inc., New York; sold to the Art Institute, 1985.

Exhibition history

Paris, Galérie Georges Petit, “Exposition de cent pastels du XVIIIe siècle par Latour, Perronneau, Nattier ... [et al.],” cat. 6, cat. by the Marquise de Ganay,1908. The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1985-1986. The Art Institute of Chicago: May 1, 1987-July 24, 1989 (Installation in Allerton gallery 220A).

Publications

Louis de Fourcaud, “Le Pastel et les Pastellistes Français au XVIIIème siècle. À propos de l’Exposition des Cents Pastels,” Revue de l’Art Ancien et Moderne, XXIV (1908), pp. 13-14. A. Lesmoine, “Exposition de Cent Pastels,” Les Arts, 82 (October 1908), pp. 14-15. Frank Davis, “Talking about Salerooms: Masterly Menagerie,” Country Life (March 14, 1985), p. 644 (ill.). Bernardina Sani, Rosalba Carriera (Turin, 1988), no. 92, fig. 72. Bernardina Sani, “Rosalba Carriera’s Young Lady with a Parrot,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17, 1 (1991), pp. 75-95 (ill.). Jan Martineau and Andrew Robison, The Glory of Venice, Art in the Eighteenth Century (New Haven, Conn., 1995), p. 19, fig. 5. “Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26, 1 (2000), pp. 30-31 (ill.). The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), p. 296 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Rosalba Carriera / Italian, 1673-1757
Date: c. 1730
Medium: Pastel on blue laid paper, mounted on laminated paper board
Dimensions: 60 × 50 cm (23 5/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pastel
Style: Rococo
Place: Venice
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Regenstein Collection
Accession no.: 1985.40

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.