anticSwiss 01/10/2021 05:11:47 http://www.anticswiss.com Pietro Longhi, The Dance, Venice C1730, Of A Pair SOLD ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 18° secolo - 1700 ARTE TRES GALLERY * SAS EP Style: NEVIAN Luigi XV Transizione +33 950 597 650 Height:48cm 33777727626 Width:64cm Price:3500€ DETAILED DESCRIPTION: "Pietro Longhi, The Dance, Venice C1730, Of A Pair" Rare: Of A Pair Of Oil On Canvas, From The First Third Of The 18th Century, Under Louis XV, Attributed To Pietro LONGHI, Venetian Painter, Representative Of The Scenes Of kind of life in the 18th century in Venice, where the rich Venetians used slaves. It is reported in the History of Slavery in Europe that slave women were brought mostly to Italy and the large Mediterranean islands (Crete, Sicily, Mallorca, Cyprus), where they found their place in domestic service ... Provenance : Private collection, after sale of the P.-S. Van Gelder (Amsterdam) - and dispersion of part of the collection of the Moos Gallery, Geneva - April 7, 1933 - (Public Auction) Lots 2568 and 2569 ... These paintings are in age and use, in Their juices were reworked at the end of the 18th century, and frames are recent. Of dimensions: 54 x 48 cm Framed, 40 x 34 cm View. Very neat shipping, accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity, and an invoice. ********** Pietro Falca, known as Pietro Longhi, born in Venice on November 5, 1701 where he died on May 8, 1785 at the age of 83, is a Venetian painter. Son of silvermaker Alessandro Falca and Antonia, his first master was Antonio Balestra. It was in 1732 that he took the name of Longhi. He marries Catarina Maria Rizzi, with whom he will have 11 children, 7 of whom will die in infancy. One of them Alessandro will make a book in 1762 entitled Summaries of the lives of the most famous Venetian history painters of this century and will become a portraitist. It is in Bologna that he learns to make frescoes with Giuseppe Maria Crespi, but it is not his style. He begins Venetian portraits. He loves the engravings of Giovanni Battista Remondini or French Joseph Flipart. From 1737 to 1773, it is part of the Corporation of Venetian painters. He painted several paintings depicting everyday life in Venice, while his satirical engravings letting appear, a sweet impertinence and some grotesque traits became very popular. These paintings show us perfectly the life, customs and dress habits in Venice in the eighteenth His characters are often dressed in the bauta. His satirical etchings and paintings of society were very popular. Longhi fashion expression of Giancarlo Sestieri in 1988 (Storia dell'arte in Italia). ******** Moos, Max birth 30.4.1880 in Randegg (Baden), died 11.10.1976 in Geneva, isr., German, Switzerland in 1913. Son of Heinrich, wood engraver and merchant, and Rosalie Bloch. ? 1909 Fanny Levy. Childhood in Karlsruhe. Experiences in the theater and music hall in Lyon and Spain as 1 / 3 anticSwiss 01/10/2021 05:11:47 http://www.anticswiss.com early as 1896. M. settled in Geneva in 1906 and opened a postcard shop, then went on to display paintings as early as 1910. First exhibition in the autumn of 1912. The "Galerie Moos" becomes professional and defends from then on Ferdinand Hodler, Otto Vautier, Maurice Barraud, modern Geneva and Swiss painting, then, as early as 1916, also French (19th and 20th century). In 1918, M. opened a new gallery, the largest in Switzerland. In 1928, he exhibited modern classics, contemporary painting and organized important auctions. From the 1950s, Mr. slows down his activity and organizes until 1966 some exhibitions at his home. https://www.anticswiss.com/en/fine-art-antiques/pietro-longhi-the-dance-venice-c1730-of-a-pair-6621 2 / 3 anticSwiss 01/10/2021 05:11:47 http://www.anticswiss.com Gallery 3 / 3 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).