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Collection Details
Faresini family, Venice; Francesco Algarotti, Venice; Mme B Gerster-Gardini,
Kansas City; with Durlacher, 1937; Kirk Askew, jnr, New York, 1944: anon.
sale, Sothebys, 11 March 1964, lot 101; bought by Lord Faringdon
for the Faringdon Trustees.
Literature
Luigi Crespi, Vite, 1769, p. 215; Mira Pajes Merriman, Giuseppe Maria
Crespi, 1980, No. 212 (as location unknown); exh cat Giuseppe
Maria Crespi and the Emergence of Genre Painting in Italy (by John T Spike),
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1986, p. 32 and fig. 21.
Exhibition Details
Durlacher, New York, G M Crespi, 1937, No. 6 (as Portrait of a Girl);
Baltimore, Detroit and St Louis Museums and Vassar College, Poughkeepsie,
Strozzi, Crespi, Piazzetta, 1944, No. 30; Finch Collection of Modern Art,
New York, Bolognese Baroque Painters, 1962, No. 20.
Engraved
By Pietro Monaco for Algarotti, as Daviddo fuggitivo.
Exhibition Details
The pendant to this picture, of a Man wearing a helmet (thus making a
pair, of the Active and Contemplative Life), is in the William Rockhill
Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City (Merriman, No. 211).
Background
Highly untypical of the work of Crespi, whose speciality was the highly
painterly depiction of scenes from common life, with pronounced chiaroscuro,
this painting has consequently been doubted as his, but the engraving
after it secures his authorship. It is appropriate that the picture should
have belonged to Venetian collectors, since it was in Venice rather than
in his native Bologna that pictures of this kind by Crespi were influential.
They particularly marked the output of the Venetian Giambattista Piazzetta,
who deliberately came to Bologna to seek out Crespis school some
time between 1703 and 1711.
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