LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
32.375 x 65.25 in. (82.2 x 165.7 cm.)
Description:
SIGN UP or
LOG IN
Exhibited:
Venice, Ca' Giustinian, Mostra di Paolo Veronese, 25 April-4 November 1939, no. 51. London, National Gallery, Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice, 19 March-15 June 2014, no. 37. Paris, Muse Jacquemart-Andr, The Alana Collection. Masterpieces of Italian Painting, 13 September 2019-20 January 2020, no. 68 (entry by C. Falciani).
Literature:
W. Suida, sterreichische Kunstschtze, III, Vienna, 1914, plate LXXVIII. G. Fiocco, Paolo Veronese, Bologna, 1934, pp. 79 and 112. L. Coletti, Paolo Veronese e la pittura a Verona del suo tempo, Pisa, 1941, p. 255. R. Gallo, 'Una famiglia patrizia: i Pisani ed I Palazzo di S. Stefano e di Stra', Arte Veneta, XXXIV, 1944, pp. 91-94. R. Pallucchini, 'Contributi alla pittura veneta del Cinquecento, Un inedito di Paolo Veronese', Arte Veneta, V, 1959, p. 55. R. Marini, L'opera complete del Veronese, Milan, 1969, p. 118, no. 189, illustrated. J. Schulz, Venetian Painted Ceilings of the Renaissance, Berkeley, 1968, p. 125. T. Pignatti, Veronese, Venice, 1976, I, p. 142, no. 213, illustrated; II, fig. 519. L. Moretti, 'I Pisani di San Polo', Il Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, Venice, 1977, p. 166. R. Pallucchini, Veronese, Venice, 1984, p. 180. T. Pignatti and F. Pedrocco, Veronese: Il catalogo completo dei dipinti, Florence, 1991, p. 223, no. 142, illustrated. T. Pignatti and F. Pedrocco, Veronese, Milan, 1995, pp. 352-352, no. 237. X.F. Salomon, Veronese, exhibition catalogue, London, 2014, pp. 156-159, 261, no. 37,pl. 113.
Provenance:
Palazzo Pisani, San Stefano, Venice, by 1809. Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840-1929), Burg Lebenstein, by 1914. with Thomas Agnew & Sons, by circa 1929. Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi (1878-1955), Florence, by 1934 and until at least 1968. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 2001, lot 69, where acquired by the present owner.