LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

38.98 in. (99.00 cm.) (height) by 53.54 in. (136.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated lower left on wall: P.B. 1751 and inscribed with an inventory number at lower right: W.F. 227

Literature:

A. Gruss, Verzeichnis der Gräflich Harrach'schen Gemälde-Galerie zu Wien, Vienna 1856, p. 47, no. 227;; G. Parthey, Deutscher Bildersaal; Verzeichniss der in Deutschland verhandenen Oelbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen, Berlin 1863, Vol. 1, p. 72, no. 3;; G. Glück, Die Harrach'sche Bildergalerie, Vienna 1923, no. 2;; H. Voss, Die Malerie des Barock in Rom, Rome 1924, p. 647;; H. Ritschl, Katalog der Erlaucht Gräflich Harrach'schen Gemälde-Galerie in Wien, Vienna 1926, p. 63 no. 188;; E. Emmerling, Pompeo Batoni sein Leben und Werk, Darmstadt 1932, p. 127, no. 152;; G. Heinz, Katalog der Graf Harrach'schen Gemäldegalerie, Vienna 1960, pp. 13-14, no. 63;; R. Keyszelitz, "The Counts Harrach," in Great Family Collections, ed. D. Cooper, New York 1965, pp. 113, 116, reproduced;; B. Barsali, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. VII, Rome 1965, p. 200;; D. Irwin, "Angelica Kauffmann and her Times", in The Burlington Magazine, Vol. CX, September 1968, p. 534, reproduced fig. 61;; R. Keyszelitz, "Die Graf Harrach'sche Familiensammlung und ihre Neuaufstellung in Schloss Rohrau," in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege, XXIV, 1970, pp. 129-31, reproduced fig. 111;; A.M. Clark, ed. E.P. Bowron, Pompeo Batoni, A Complete Catalogue of His Works, Oxford 1985, pp. 251-2, cat. no. 152, reproduced plate 142;; J.C. Praitre, Suzanne, 1991, p. 105, reproduced plate 162;; S. Ferrari, "Un mediatore dei rapporti artistici fra Roma e Vienna: l'agente Giuseppe Dionigio Crivelli (1693-1782)," in Römanische Historische Mitteilungen, 40, Vienna 1998, pp. 459-468;; E.P. Bowron and P.B. Kerber, in Pompeo Batoni, Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome, exhibition catalogue, Houston and London, 2007-8, p. 98, reproduced in color pp. 8, 172, 176, 178, cat. no. 27, reproduced p.101, fig. 90;; B. Geoffroy-Schneiter, "Pompeo Batoni, peintres des princes," in L'Oeil, April 2008, p. 106, reproduced in color.

Provenance:

Commissioned in 1751 by Count Ernst Guido von Harrach (1723-83); Thence by family descent at Vienna and Rohrau; By whom sold ("Property from the Harrach Collection, Schloss Rohrau"), London, Sotheby's, 11 December 1991, lot 80; Purchased just after the sale by the present collector.