LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

66.54 in. (169.00 cm.) (height) by 90.16 in. (229.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

Probably S. dalla Rosa, Inventario delli quadri della fu Galleria Turco, e successiva divisione tra gli eredi Carlotti, e Bevilacqua, MS, 15 June 1808, in the 'Camera sopra la strada': 'Venere che dorme e due satiri con amorino di Valentino Lefebre Fiammingo'; Probably E.M. Guzzo, 'Quadrerie barocche a Verona: le collezioni Turco e Gazzola', in. Studi Storici Luigi Simeoni, vol. 48, 1998, p. 160; U. Ruggeri, 'Per la fortuna di Paolo Veronese nella pittura veneziana del Seicento: nuovi dipinti di Valentin Lefèvre' in. Nuovi Studi su Paolo Veronese, M. Gemin (ed.), Venice 1990, pp. 146-47, reproduced fig. 126 (in reverse); U. Ruggeri, Valentin Lefèvre. Dipinti Disegni Incisioni, Manerba 2001, pp. 108-09, cat. no. Q.46, reproduced p. 109 (in reverse

Provenance:

Probably Lonardo or Pio Turco, Verona, last quarter of the seventeenth century; Probably thence by family descent to Francesco Turco; Probably thence by descent to his daughters Maria Turco, married to Antonio Carlotti (b. 1773), and Teodora Turco (d. 1807), married to Girolamo Bevilacqua (1780-1825), when divided to one branch of the family in 1808; Prof. Publio Podio, Bologna; Acquired by the father of the present owner; Thence by descent