Caterina Sagredo Barbarigo as "Berenice"

ca. 1741

Rosalba Giovanna Carriera Italian, 1675-1757

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Title Caterina Sagredo Barbarigo as "Berenice"

Artwork Date ca. 1741

Artist Rosalba Giovanna Carriera

Life Dates 1675-1757

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Pastel on gray-blue laid paper, mounted onto thin canvas

Dimensions Sheet: 17 15/16 × 13 11/16 × 1/2 inches (45.6 × 34.8 × 1.3 cm) Framed: 27 3/8 inches × 22 3/8 inches × 2 inches (69.5 × 56.8 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. William D. Vogel in memory of her mother Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 56.264

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Marks Inscribed, on back of stretcher, upper edge, broken red-wax seal: A.[C.?]

Provenance

1741, probably sold in (Venice, Italy);
June-July 1741, purchased by Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, later 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne [1720-1794] (listed in the catalogue of the Newcastle collection at Clumber, 1914/23, no. 315) (England);
October 25, 1946, sold by (Christie's, London, England) no. 59C;
Arturo Grassi (New York, New York, USA);
Ralph H. Booth (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
Mrs. Ralph H. Booth (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
gift to her daughter, Mrs. Virginia Booth Vogel (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1956-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Hipkin, William John. Descriptive catalogue of the pictures, pastel drawings, water-colour drawings, engravings, & c: belonging to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle at Clumber House, Workshop in the county of Nottingham, 1914. London, 1923, no. 315.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums: January-March 1957." Art Quarterly 20, 2 (Summer 1957): p. 206.

Sani, Bernardina. Rosalba Carriera. Turin, 1988, p. 322; no. 342 (fig. 300).

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 98-99, no. 43, p. 141 (pl. xiii).

Manning, Robert L. A Loan Exhibition of Venetian Paintings of the 18th Century. Exh. cat., Finch College Museum of Art. New York, 1961, no. 9.

Payne, Elizabeth H. "A Venetian Portrait in Pastel." Bulletin of the DIA 37, 1, (1957/8): p. 4 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. Venice 1700-1800: An Exhibition of Venice and the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and John Heron Art Museum. Detroit and Indianapolis, 1952, no. 21.

Sani, Bernardina. Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757): maestra del pastello nell’Europa ancien régime. Turin, 2007, p. 347; no. 398 (ill.).

Saska, Hope. Learning by Line: The Role of Drawing in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2009, pp. 5 (ill.); 13.

van Oppen de Ruiter, Branko. Berenice II Euergetis: Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship. New York, 2015, pp. 67-70 (pl. 3.15).

Straussman-Pflanzer, Eve, and Oliver Tostmann, eds. By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800. Exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and DIA. Detroit, 2021, pp. 9; 140; 167-169 (ill.); cat. 57 (fig. 2).

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Rosalba Giovanna Carriera, Caterina Sagredo Barbarigo as "Berenice", ca. 1741, pastel on gray-blue laid paper, mounted onto thin canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William D. Vogel in memory of her mother Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth, 56.264.