Lot 76: GIOVANNI BATTISTA CROSATO (Venice c.1685/6-1758)

Moses striking the Rock oil on canvas 251/4 x 351/2 in. (64 x 90 cm.) PROVENANCE with Hazlitt Gallery, London, in 1962. Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 21 April 1989, lot 79. LITERATURE The Burlington Magazine (advertisement), June 1962. A. Ballarin, 'Pittura Veneziana a London', Arte Veneta, XVI, 1962, p. 240. T. Crombie, 'Baroque and Rococo at the Hazlitt Gallery', Apollo, LXXVI, 1962, p. 288. E. Martini, La pittura veneziana del Settecento, Venice, 1964, p.174. N.S. Harrison, The Paintings of Giovanni Battista Crosato, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1983, p. 140. EXHIBITION London, Hazlitt Gallery, Baroque and Rococo Paintings and Oil Sketches, May 1962, no. 5, plate 3A. NOTES Crombie ( op. cit. ) regarded the figures in the present lot as displaying an oriental lavishness which he regarded as typical of Crosato's work; he dated the work to the period of the artist's stay in Venice, circa 1740-50. SALESROOM NOTICE Please note that an attribution to Giuseppe Antonio Orelli (1706-c. 1776) has been suggested by Prof. Ugo Ruggeri.