ROSALBA CARRIERA (VENICE 1673-1757)
Portrait of a lady, bust-length, looking to the right, holding grapes (An allegory of Autumn)
pastel on paper, laid down on canvas
18 ¼ x 12 7/8 in. (46 x 32.5 cm)
ROSALBA CARRIERA (VENICE 1673-1757)
Portrait of a lady, bust-length, looking to the right, holding grapes (An allegory of Autumn)
pastel on paper, laid down on canvas
18 ¼ x 12 7/8 in. (46 x 32.5 cm)
Private collection, Switzerland. Anonymous sale; Koller, Zurich, 27 March 2009, lot 3089, where acquired by the present owner.
B. Sani, 'Il Gabinetto della Rosalba della Gemäldegalerie di Dresda. Florilegio della pittura a pastello europea tra Rococò e Illuminismo' in B. Marx and A. Henning, Venedig - Dresden. Begegnung zweier Kulturstädte, Dresden and Leipzig, 2010, p. 212, ill. p. 365.