LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

35.63 in. (90.50 cm.) (height) by 26.14 in. (66.40 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Bologna, Palazzo Communale,. Mostra del Settecento bolognese , 1935 (lent. by Dr Fritz Haussmann, Berlin

Literature:

G. Zucchini,. Mostra del Settecento bolognese , exh. cat., Bologna 1935, p. 19, cat. no. 10, reproduced pl. XVIII;. R. Roli,. Pittura Bolognese, 1650-1800, Dal Cignani al Gandolfi, Bologna 1977, reproduced fig. 168c;. M.P. Merriman,. Giuseppe Maria Crespi , Milan 1980, p. 281 cat. no. 164, reproduced fig. 164

Provenance:

Dr Fritz Haussmann, Berlin, by 1935, until 1938;. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 1938 (included in their inventory of 1943/ 1944);. Seized from the above by the Red Army in 1945 and taken to Russia;. Returned to Gemäldegalerie, East Berlin, in 1958;. The Bode Museum, East Berlin, 1958;. Restituted to the heirs of Dr Fritz Haussmann in 2007 by the Stiftung Preußicher Kulturbesitz