Esequie della Serenissima Elisa-Betta Carlotta D'Orleans (Funeral of the Most Serene Elisabeth Charlotte of Orleans)

1745

Giuseppe Buondelmonti

Artist, Italian

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    First of two volumes bound together; two over-sized etched and engraved plates, folded and attached to end of book

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    book: 26.04 x 19.05 cm (10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
    plate of facade of San Lorenzo: 39.69 x 27.94 cm (15 5/8 x 11 in.)
    plate of catafalque: 69.69 x 45.24 cm (27 7/16 x 17 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.91.1.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Berlin 1939, no. 3261

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Associated Artworks

Orazione Funebre in Morte di Elisabetta Carlotta (Funeral Oration on the Death of Elisabeth Charlotte)

Giuseppe Buondelmonti, Niccolò Mogalli, Carlo Gregori, Rosso Antonio Martini

1745


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Libreria Antiquaria Lucia Panini, Milan); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1939

  • Berlin, Staatliche Museen. Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Berlin and Leipzig, 1939: 417, no. 3261.

2000

  • Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen, Anne Simon. Festivals and Ceremonies: a bibliography of works relating to court, civic, and religious festivals in Europe 1500-1800. New York: 2000, no. 1316.

Inscriptions

on spine in pen and brown ink: "Martini Ross[...]" remaining letters obscured by paper ticket on spine, on which is inscribed: "4/243/0"; on verso of free front endpaper, in pen and brown ink: “Rosso Antoni Martini, Autore di questo Descriptione, fu uno de’ benementi compilatori della quarta impressione de Vocabolario della Greca. Le solenni esequie furono celebrates sotto la diretione del pittore ed architetto Giuseppe Chamant. Erri la facciata della chiesa incise da Niccolò Mogalli e il catafalio de Carlo Gregori. Gli autori delle [….] furono il Peruzzi, il Cocchi, il Gori, il Lami, il Biscioni (Gambo Serie dei Terti di lingua).”; printed on slip of paper glued to back paste-down: “ESEQUIE della Serma. Elisabetta Caarlotta d’Orleans duchessa vedova di Lorena fatte celebrare in Firenze da Francesco III Duca di Lorena. Firenze, 1745, in 4. Con 2 belle tavole incise in rame. Perg.”


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