1840s, excavated under the direction of Austen Henry Layard; 1849, presented by Layard to Lady Charlotte Guest for Canford Manor, Dorsetshire (Dorset), England; 1919, purchased by Dikran Kelekian from Ivor Churchill Guest; 1927, purchased by J
London: Chatto and Windus, p. 127. Porada, Edith. 1945.
Muscarella, Oscar White. 1974. Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection no. 60, Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.von Bothmer, Dietrich, Carlos A. Picón, Joan R. Mertens, and Elizabeth J
Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 51(2): p. 61.
Turner made three trips to Venice, in the late summers of 1819, 1833, and 1840, and the present painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1835, must have been painted upon his return from his second visit, presumably using his own drawings and watercolors as source materials
CCCXVII b 23) and another, of about 1840, in the British Museum (1958,0712.443).
Watteau did not participate in public exhibitions, nor title his pictures, whose meaning is often difficult to fathom. This late work is clearly a theatrical subject, and as he is known to have made drawings of comic actors and quacks from an early age, he must have been interested in the theater throughout his short life
Paris, [1904], p. 166, ill. p. 15. Emile Dacier.
Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown ; Clark Collection Sally B.
Princeton NJ: Princeton Monographs, p. 92, pl. XXIX:2.
A traveling troupe of commedia dell’arte actors entertains a party of Venetians enjoying a summer holiday on the mainland. Such performances often ended with a minuet, depicted here. The dancing couple may be the lovers Lelio and Isabella (sometimes called by other names), the only actors in the troupe who did not wear masks
B. Tiepolo: la sua vita e le sue opere.
From the Passion of Christ window, choir of the castle chapel (the Schlosskapelle) at Ebreichsdorf, south of Vienna.; Lolowrat-Liebsteinsky, Ebreichsdorf (1843-73) ; Count Joseph Arco-Zinneberg, Ebreichsdorf (1873-1922) ; [ Duveen Brothers, London, Paris and New York] ; Mrs
Berlin: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1913. p. 199.
Provo, Utah, 1994, p. 73, fig. 44, ill. Laurence Libin.
