Rosalba Carriera

Exhibited by Matteo Salamon - Milan

Material Pastel on paper, laid down on canvas

Dimensions 57 x 43

Place of Creation Venice

Status Vetted

About the Work

A very rare portrait of a man by the hand of one of the greatest portrait painter of XVIII Century.

Provenance

Turin, private collection; Venice, private collection, Wien, Dorotheum, 2024

Literature

L. Mallè - G. Testori, Giacomo Ceruti e la ritrattistica del suo tempo nell’Italia settentrionale, Turin 1967, p. 59, no. 57, ill. 16
B. Sani, Rosalba Carriera, Turin, 1988, pp. 283-284,
ill. no. 52
B. Sani, Rosalba Carriera, Turin, 2007, no. 68,
pagg. 98-100
A. Craievich, in Rosalba Carriera “prima pittrice de l’Europa”, by G. Pavanello, Venice, 2007, no. 14,
pp. 108-109
N. Jaffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800,
London, p. 113
N. Jaffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800,
Rosalba Carriera-Unnamed Sitters, online version, updated September 2024, pp. 4-5, no. j.21.2271