Giovanni Antonio Guardi

Field Marshal Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1671–1747), as one of a series of forty-three Turkish scenes commissioned from Giovanni Antonio and Francesco Guardi, and paid for between 1 February 1742 and 15 December 1743, each for 2 zecchini; hung in the 'stanza del colonnello Arcoleo', Palazzo Loredan, San Trovaso, Venice;

Antonio Morassi (1893–1976), Rome;

From whom acquired jointly by Knoedler & Co. and Pinakos Inc, New York (stock. no. A6288);

From whom acquired by the present family, April 1956.

London, National Gallery, From Van Eyck to Tiepolo. An Exhibition of Pictures from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, 2 March – 30 April 1961, no. 57 (as Francesco Guardi);

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Mostra dei Guardi, 5 June – 10 October 1965, no. 26;

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Paris, Petit Palais, among several other museums, Old Master Paintings from the Collection of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, 17 November 1979 – 28 March 1982, no. 12;

Venice, Galleria di Palazzo Cini, Guardi. Quadri turcheschi, 28 August – 21 November 1993, no. 3.

Inventario Generale della Galleria di S.E. Maresciallo Co: di Sculemburgh..., Venice, 30 June 1741, addendum: Tableaux achetés après le sudit Cattalogue, 1746 (Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv, Depositum 82, Abt. III, no. 37): 'Guardi - 43 Tabl rappt: les Coutumes des Turcs';

Quadri e Ritratti Essistenti nelle differenti Camere del Palazzo del Defonto Eccellentissimo Maresciallo, 'Camera del Sigr Ten.te Col.o Arcoleo', Palazzo Loredan a San Trovaso, Venice, August 1747 (Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv, Depositum 82, Abt. III, no. 33): 'Guardi - Quaranta tre quadri rapresentano costumi dei Turchi';

R.J. Heinemann, Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz, Lugano 1958, p. 45, no. 173a (as Francesco Guardi);

A. Morassi, ‘Antonio Guardi ai servigi del Feldmaresciallo Schulemburg’, in Emporium, vol. CXXXI, no. 785, May 1960, p. 204;

F.J.B Watson, 'A series of "Turqueries" by Francesco Guardi,' in The Baltimore Museum of Art News, vol. XXIV, no. 1, Fall 1960, pp. 6, 8 and 13, reproduced p. 11, fig. 4 (as Francesco Guardi);

T. Pignatti, 'Nuovi Disegni di Figure dei Guardi', in Critica d'Arte, vol. XI, 1964, p. 57;

P. Zampetti, Mostra dei Guardi, exh. cat., Venice 1965, pp. 49 and 51, no. 26, reproduced;

R. Pallucchini, 'Note alla mostra dei Guardi', in Arte Veneta, vol. 19, 1965, p. 223, no. 26, reproduced fig. 281;

J. Cailleux, 'Les Guardi et Pietro Longhi', in Problemi Guardeschi. Atti del Convegno di Studi Prommosso dalla Mostra dei Guardi, Venice 1967, p. 53, reproduced fig. 78 (as datable to slightly later than 1742–43);

D. Mahon, 'The Brothers at the Mostra dei Guardi: Some Impressions of a Neophyte', in Problemi Guardeschi, Venice 1967, pp. 79, 108 and 145, reproduced fig. 78;

T. Pignatti, 'Linguistica e Linguaggio dei Fratelli Guardi', in Problemi Guardeschi, Venice 1967, p. 177, reproduced fig. 78;

T. Pignatti, Disegni dei Guardi, Florence 1967, p. 8, and under no. X v;

R. Heinemann, Catalogue of the Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, Lugano-Castagnola 1969, p. 138, no. 122, reproduced plate 278;

A. Binion, Antonio and Francesco Guardi, their life and milieu: with a catalogue of their figure drawings, doctoral diss., Columbia University 1971, p. 204, under no. 64 (as datable to 1745–47);

A. Morassi, Guardi: Antonio e Francesco Guardi, Venice 1973, vol. I, pp. 61-62, 114, 120, 169, 172 and 327, no. 101, reproduced pl. XXVII; vol. II, reproduced fig. 121;

A. Morassi, 'Four Newly Discovered Turkish Scenes', in Apollo, April 1974, vol. XCIX, no. 146, p. 274;

A. Morassi, Guardi: I Disegni, Venice 1975, p. 89, under no. 55;

F. Haskell, Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italy, New Haven and London 1980, p. 313, n. 2;

A. Rosenbaum, Old Master Paintings from the Collection of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, exh. cat., Washington, D.C. 1979, pp. 97–99, no. 12, reproduced p. 37; French ed. Paris 1982, pp. 26–28, no. 12;

G. Borghero (ed.), Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Catalogue Raisonné of the Exhibited Works of Art, Lugano 1986, p. 136, no. 122, reproduced;

D. Succi, ‘Vedute e capricci veneziani del settecento nella galleria di Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg’, in Capricci Veneziani del Settecento, exh. cat., Milan 1988, p. 85;

A. Binion, La Galleria scomparsa del maresciallo von der Schulenburg. Un mecenate nella Venezia del Settecento, Milan 1990, pp. 107, 245 and 259, reproduced fig. 38;

F. Pedrocco, Antonio Guardi, Milan 1992, p. 130, no. 60, reproduced p. 203, fig. 78;

A. Bettagno, Guardi. Quadri turcheschi, exh. cat., Milan 1993, pp. 18, 19 and 34, no. 3, reproduced in colour p. 35;

G.M. Pilo, in I Guardi: Vedute, capricci, feste, disegni e ‘quadri turcheschi’, A. Bettagno (ed.), exh. cat., Venice 2002, p. 224, reproduced fig. 268;

O. Nefedova, A Journey into the World of the Ottomans: the Art of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671–1737), Milan 2009, p. 191, reproduced p. 192, no. 192.