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Lot 56: Giulia Lama (Venice c. 1685-after 1753)

Est: $50,000 USD - $70,000 USDSold:
Christie'sNew York, NY, USJune 08, 2011

Item Overview

Description

Giulia Lama (Venice c. 1685-after 1753)
Saturn Devouring his Child
oil on canvas
48½ x 43 7/8 in. (123.2 x 111.5 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art and Springfield, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates, 8 January-19 February 1978 and 19 March-7 May 1978, no. 4, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo, 1722'.
Ingelheim am Rhein, Museum-Altes-Rathaus, Kunst in Venedig, 16.-18. Jahrhundert, 26 April-8 June 1987, p. 149, no. 76, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo, c. 1720-22'.

Literature

N. Ivanoff, 'Arte e critica d'arte nella Venezia del Seicento', in La Civiltà veneziana dell'età barocca, V, Storia della cività veneziana, Florence, 1959, fig. 16, as 'Paolo Pagani'.
A. Morassi, 'Alcune tele giovanili di Giambattista Tiepolo', Arte Veneta, XXIX, 1975, pp. 232-34, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
G. Knox, 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Tiepolo Paintings at Birmingham (Alabama)', Burlington Magazine, CXX, no. 900, March 1978, p. 189, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo, c. 1716-18'.
G. Knox, 'Reviews: Tiepolo Drawings at Birmingham', Master Drawings, XVI, no. 1, 1978, p. 61, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo, c. 1716-18'.
E. Martini, La Pittura del Settecento veneto, Venice, 1981, p. 510, note 191, as 'Pagani'.
S. Burri, 'Paolo Pagani', Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte, XIII, 1982, pp. 49, note 4; 65-6, fig. 15, as 'Pagani'.
Venice, Ca' Vendramin Calergi, Giambattista Piazzetta: Il suo tempo, la sua scuola, exhibition catalogue, Venice, 1983, p. 55, under no. 1 (entry by U. Ruggeri).
M. Gemin and F. Pedrocco, Giambattista Tiepolo: I dipinti, opera completa, Venice, 1993, p. 510, no. 53, fig. 53, as 'Pagani'.
A. Morandotti, 'Paolo Pagani: il ciclo Leoni Montanari e altre suggestioni,' Verona illustrata, no. 6, 1993, p. 91, fig. 49, as 'Pagani, c. 1710-20'.
R. Pallucchini, La pittura nel Veneto: Il Settecento, Milan, 1995, pp. 313-14, fig. 515, as 'c. 1735'.
C. Geddo, 'Ritrovamenti sul marchese Cesare Pagani committente del pittore Paolo Pagani', Paragone, series 3, nos. 1/2, May-July 1995, pp. 131-32, 150, note 67.
F. Bianchi, 'Fortuna critica e fortuna collezionistica di Paolo Pagani', in Rancate, Pinacoteca Cantonale Giovanni Züst and Campione d'Italia, Galleria Civica, Paolo Pagani, 1655-1716, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1998, pp. 24, 31 note 47, 110, under nos. 7a, 7b, fig. 5, as 'not by Pagani'.

Notes

Giulia Lama (Venice c. 1685-after 1753)
Saturn Devouring his Child
oil on canvas
48½ x 43 7/8 in. (123.2 x 111.5 cm.)

Auction Details

Old Master Paintings

by
Christie's
June 08, 2011, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US