Object number1917.1.15

View of the Scuola di San Rocco, Venice

Daten.d.

Artist Currently Unidentified

formerly attributed to Michele Marieschi (Italian (Venetian), 1710 - 1743)

CultureVenetian

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsFramed: 28 1/2 x 38 x 2 1/4 in. (72.39 x 96.52 x 5.72 cm)
Unframed: 20 x 29 1/4 in. (50.8 x 74.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Charles M. Pratt

Period18th c

Classification(s)

Painting

SignedNot signed

Bibliography"Italian Baroque Painting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Exhibition booklet, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, date unknown (after 1940), No. 21 Fredericksen, Burton B. and Federico Zeri, "Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North Amerian Public Collections," (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1972), p. 120 ProvenancePurchased by unknown entity, 1863
Dowdeswell and Dowdeswells Ltd., London, c. 1878-1912
Collection of Charles M. Pratt
Gifted to Vassar College, 1917

Vassar Exhibitions

Selections from the Permanent Collection (1990)

Exhibition HistoryUnknown Title, Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, April 15 - May 15, 1938;
Italian Baroque Painting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, date unknown (after 1940);
Masterworks from University and College Collections (30th Anniversary Exhibition), University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, February 22 - March 30, 1958;
Highlights from the Vassar College Art Gallery Collection, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA, August 2 - November 19, 1990;
Highlights from the Vassar College Collection, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, July 13 - September 11, 1993;

Terms

townscapes (representations)

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