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Provenance

Possibly the Manfrin collection, Palazzo Venier, Venice.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence), by 1937; purchased 1939 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1943 to NGA.

[1] Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:400, listed only "Palazzo Venier," while Jeffery Daniels, Sebastiano Ricci, Hove, 1976: 153, gives "Venice, Palazzo Venier, Manfrin." Neither offers any documentation. The Palazzo Priuli-Venier was purchased in 1787 by Count Girolamo Manfrin [d. 1801], a wealthy tobacco producer, who installed his art collection there. The painting does not appear in the Catalogo dei quadri esistenti nella Galleria Manfrin in Venezia, Venice, 1856, or in the subsequent sales of Manfrin's daughter Giovanna Plattis (Sambon, Venice, 24-25 May 1870) or granddaughter Lina Plattis-Sardegna (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13-14 May 1897). On the collection's history, see the prefaces to the sale catalogues and Giuseppe Tassini, Alcuni palazzi di venezia storicamente illustrata con annotazioni, Venice, 1879, 191-192. Neither Tassini nor other nineteenth-century guidebooks mention significant art collections in the other Venier palaces.

[2] According to notations in the Kress records, NGA curatorial files. Expert opinions by Roberto Longhi, William Suida, and Giuseppe Fiocco on the back of photographs from the Kress files, evidently prepared for Contini, are dated Florence, 1937.

Exhibition History

1989
Sebastiano Ricci, Villa Manin di Passariano, Udine, 1989, no. 37, color repro. (cat. by Aldo Rizzi).
1991
Venedigs Ruhm im Norden, Forum des Landesmuseums Hannover, Hannover; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf, 1991-1992, no. 68, repro.
2009
Venice in Canaletto's Age, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 2009-2010, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 169.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 250, repro. 176.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 140, repro.
1950
Osti, Ornella. "Sebastiano Ricci in Inghilterra." Commentari 2 (1950): 123, n. 1.
1952
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. "Studi Ricceschi I, Contributo a Sebastiano." Arte Veneta 6 (1952): 77-78, repro.
1954
Watson, Francis J. B. "English Villas and Venetian Decorators." Journal of the Royal Society of the Institute of British Architects 61 (1954): 174, repro.
1957
Ghidiglia Quintavalle, Augusta. "Premesse giovanile di Sebastiano Ricci." Rivista archeologica, 1956-1957: 85, fig. 19 (reprinted in San Secondo: Arte storia attualità. Parma, 1970.
1957
Whinney, Margaret, and Oliver Millar. English Art 1625-1714. Oxford, 1957: 310, pl. 82.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 230, repro.
1962
Croft-Murrary, Edward. Decorative Painting in England 1587-1837. 2 vols. London, 1962; Feltham, 1970: 2:15, 266.
1964
Garas, Klára. "New Documents Concerning Sebastiano Ricci." The Burlington Magazine 106 (1964): 131.
1964
Martini, Egidio. La pittura veneziana del settecento. Venice, 1964: 161, n. 46.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 114.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 102, repro.
1969
Zampetti, Pietro. Dal Ricci al Tiepolo. Exh. cat. Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1969: 28.
1972
Fredericksen and Zeri 1972, 175.
1973
D'Arcais, Francesca. "I complessi decorativi fiorentini di Sebastiano Ricci III." Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell'Arte 12 (1973): 10-11, 13, fig. 11.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 127-128, fig. 250.
1974
Simon, John. English Baroque Sketches. Exh. cat. Marble Hill House, Twickenham. London, 1974: unpaginated, no. 71.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 306, repro.
1976
Daniels, Jeffery. L'opera completa di Sebastiano Ricci. Milan, 1976: 118, no. 325, repro.
1976
Daniels, Jeffery. Sebastiano Ricci. Hove, 1976: 40, 117, 153, no. 530, fig. 122.
1976
Daniels, Jeffery. "Sebastiano Ricci in England." Atti del Congresso internazionale di studi su Sebastiano Ricci e il suo tempo. Milan, 1976: 72, fig. 55.
1976
Pilo, Giuseppe Maria. Sebastiano Ricci e la pittura veneziana del settecento. Pordenone, 1976: 98 n. 156, 99 n. 159.
1978
Works by Sebastiano Ricci from British Collections. Exh. cat. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, 1978: unpaginated, no. 11.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:400-402, II:pl. 285.
1982
Christiansen, Keith. "The Baptism of Christ." Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions 1981-82. New York, 1982: 42.
1984
Aikema, Bernard. "Proposte per Sebastiano Ricci e per Nicola Grassi." Nicola Grassi e il Rococò europeo. (Atti del Congresso internazionale di Studi, 20-22 maggio 1982.) Udine, 1984: 95, fig. 97.
1984
Daniels, Jeffery. "Grassi: Direct or Indirect?" Nicolas Grassi e il Rococò europeo. (Atti del Congresso internazionale di Studi, 20-22 maggio 1982.) Udine, 1984: 109.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 351, repro.
1991
Scarpa Sonino, Annalisa. Marco Ricci. Milan, 1991: 22-25, repro.
1996
De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 230-236, color repro. 233.

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