LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

22.48 in. (57.10 cm.) (height) by 34.49 in. (87.60 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works of Art from private collections in the North West and North Wales, 21 September-30 October 1960, no. 121.New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Views of Florence and Tuscany by Zocchi (1711-1767), 1-27 September 1987.Florence, Forte di Belvedere, Firenze e la sua immagine. Cinque secoli di vedutismo, 29 June-30 September 1994, no. 81 (entry by M. Gregori).

Literature:

C. Hussey, "Ashburnham Place, Sussex - II", Country Life, CXIII, no. 2936, 23 April 1953, p. 1249, reproduced p. 1247, figs. 3 and 4.A. Morassi, "Circa alcune opere sconosciute di Giuseppe Zocchi", Bollettino dei musei civici veneziani, VII, 1962, no. 1, pp. 8-9.M. Gregori and S. Blasio, Firenze nella Pittura e nel Disegno dal Trecento al Settecento, Florence, 1994, pp. 192, 194-195, 213 n. 73, fig. 249.M. Chiarini, "Dipinti e sculture dal XIV al XVIII secolo", Opera d'Arte, 1995, pp. 114-117.S. Bellesi, Book review in Antichità Viva, Anno XXXV, no. 2-3, December 1996, pp. 74-75, fig. 1.A. Tosi, Inventare la Realtà. Giuseppe Zocchi e la Toscana del Settecento, Florence, 1997, p. 73 n 57.R. Contini, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Painting, London, 2002, pp. 370, 372, 431.

Provenance:

Acquired by George, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham (1760-1830), while living in Florence at the villa Pasquale (now the villa Pratolino), probably in the 1780s, and by descent to his eldest son by his second marriageBertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, (1797-1878)m Ashburnham House, Dover Street, 1873, and later at Ashburnham Place, Sussex (where it hung on the lower register in the Great Entrance Hall), and by descent to his eldest sonBertram, 5th Earl of Ashburnham, (1840-1913), Ashburnham Place, Sussex, and by descent to his daughterMary Catherine Charlotte (called "Lady Catherine") Ashburnham (1890-1953), Ashburnham Place, Sussex, and by descent toMr. and Mrs. A.M. Burnett-Stuart, 1953 until at least 1960.with Harari & Johns, Ltd., London, 1982, where acquired by 1987 by the following.Private collection; Sotheby's, London, 11 December 2003, lot 45 (£509,600), where acquired by the present owner.