LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

85.04 in. (216.00 cm.) (height) by 59.06 in. (150.00 cm.) (width)

Condition:

framed

Exhibited:

London, Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd.,. Venetian Eighteenth-Century Painting , 5 June - 19 July 1985, no. 1;. London, Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd.,. Master Paintings: Recent Acquisitions , 14 June - 28 July 1989, no. 1

Literature:

Christies Review of the Season 1984 , London 1985, p. 24;. . Venetian Eighteenth-Century Painting , exh. cat., London 1985, p. 6, cat. no. 1, reproduced fig. 1;. K. Christiansen, in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1984-85 , New York 1985, p. 26;. . Master Paintings: Recent Acquisitions , exh. cat., London 1989, pp. 4-5, cat. no. 1, reproduced;. A. Scarpa Sonino,. Jacopo Amigoni , Soncino 1994, pp. 80-82, reproduced p. 81;. K. Baetjer,. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists born before 1865 , New York 1995, p. 84;. G. Fossaluzza, in. Splendori del Settecento Veneziano , exh. cat., Venice and Milan 1995, p. 138;. R. Pallucchini,. La pittura nel Veneto: il Settecento , vol. I, Milan 1995, p. 113, reproduced p. 118, fig. 163;. M.A. Pavone,. Metamorphosi del Mito. Pittura barocca tra Napoli, Genova e Venezia, exh. cat., Genoa 2003, p. 205

Provenance:

Ward-Boughton-Leigh family, Brownsover Hall, Rugby, with the pendant. Flora and Zephyr; Thence by descent in the family;. By whom sold (The Property of a Gentleman, removed from Brownsover Hall, Rugby), London,. Christies, 6 April 1984, lot 14, to Agnew, for £140,000 (the pendant sold separately, lot 15, as. Cupid and Psyche );. With Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London;. Anonymous sale (The Property of a Private Collector), New York, Christies, 11 January 1991, lot 54;. Purchased at the above sale by the present owner