LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

16.57 in. (42.10 cm.) (height) by 25.59 in. (65.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears inventory number '168' (lower left), with a label on the stretcher inscribed 'Sammlung von der Schulenburg/ hehlen 1957/ No. 230'

Literature:

Inventario Generale della Galleria di S: Eccellza Felt Marescial Conte di Sculembourgh..., 30 May 1738, one of 'Due Piccole Battaglie' by 'Francesco Monti Bresciano' (A. Binion, op. cit., 1900, p. 202),Inventario Generale della Galleria di S.E. Maresciallo Co: di Schulemburg..., Venice, 30 July 1741, 'Francesco Monti overo Bressano di Parma - Quadri due rapresentano due bellissime battaglie (ibid., p. 229),Inventaire de la Gallerie de Feu S. E. Mgr. le Feldmarechal Comte de Schulenburg - Tableaux de f. c. a Berlin des tableaux a Hehlen, c.1750, no. 168, one of '2 Tableaux repres. de tres belles batailles' (ibid., p.278),Hehlen Inventory, 1957, no. 230,A. Binion, 'From Schulenburg's Gallery and Records', in The Burlington Magazine, CXII, no. 806, May 1970, p. 302,E. Antoniazzi Rossi, 'Ulteriori considerazioni sull'inventario della collezione del maresciallo von Schulenburg', in Arte Veneta, XXXI, 1977, p.131,A. Binion, La Galleria scomparsa del maresciallo von der Schulenburg. Un mecenate nella Venezia del Settecento, Milan, 1990, pp. 202, 229, 265 and 278

Provenance:

Field Marshall Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747), by whom sent to Germany in December 1737 (A. Binion, op. cit., 1900, p. 265), and bequeathed to his nephew,Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg, Berlin and thence by descent through the family,Sale, Christie's, London, 7 July 2000, lot 229 (as the Property of a member of the Von der Schulenburg family), where purchased by,Private Collection, Italy,Sale, Bonhams, 29 October 2014, lot 174, where purchased by the present owner