Property from a Midwestern Collection
Bacchanal in Honor of Pan; The Feast of Silenus
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February 1, 04:16 PM GMT
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300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Property from a Midwestern Collection
Sebastiano Ricci
Belluno 1659–1734 Venice
Bacchanal in Honor of Pan;
The Feast of Silenus
a pair, both oil on canvas
𓆉each canvas: 39 by 44 ⅞ in.; 99.0 by 114.0 cm.
each framed: 46 ½ by 52 ¾ in.; 118.1 by 133.9 cm.
Probably commissioned in by Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenb𝓡urg (1661-1747), Venice, 1731;
Tr⛎ansferred after his death with other pictures froꦑm the collection to Hehlen, Germany, 1747;
His estate sale, London, Christie's, 13 ♛Aꦍpril 1775, lots 37 and 38;
Private collection, Genoa;
Anacleto Frezzati, Venice, by 1976;
With Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd., London;
From whom acquired by the present c💮ollector, 1987.
P. Zampetti, "Due Baccanali di Sebastiano Ricci," in Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Studi su Sebastiano Ricci e il suo tempo, Udine 1975, Milan 1976, pp. 126-127;
J. Daniels, Sebastiano Ricci, B🐼ath 1976, p. 156, cat. nos. 542 (a)-(b), reproduced𒐪 figs. 57-58;
J. Daniels, L'opera completa di Sebastiano Ricci, Milan 1976, p. 136, cat. nos. 510-511, reproduced;
T. Wessel, Sebastiano Ricci und die Rokoko Malerei, Freiburg 1984, pp. 172-181;
A. Binion, La galleria scomparsa del maresciallo von der Schulenburg, exhibit🉐ion catalogue, Milan 1990, pp. 8𝐆4, 137, 140, 294;
M. Trudzinski and B. Schälicke (eds.), Venedigs Ruhm in Norden, exhibitiꦜon catalogue, Hanover💞 1992, pp. 228-229, cat. no. 70;
R. Pallucchini, La pittura nel Veneto, Il Settecento, vol. I, Milan 1995, pp. 59-60;
A. Scarpa, Sebastiano Ricci, Milan 2006, pp. 326-327, 344, cat. nos. 🎀521-522, reproduced p. 205, figs. 684, 686-687.
Hanover, Forum des Landesmuseums; Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum, Venedigs Ruhm im Norden: die grossen venezianischen Maler des 18. Jahrhunderts, ihre Auftraggeber, und ihre Sammler, 3 December 1991 - 26 April 1992, no. 70.