Portrait of Senator Pisani, Ambassador to Constantinople
Artist
Alessandro Longhi
(Italian, 1733-1813)
CultureItalian
Date1733-1813
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 58 1/2 x 48 in. (148.6 x 121.9 cm)
Overall, Frame: 67 1/2 x 57 1/2 in. (171.5 x 146.1 cm)
Overall, Frame: 67 1/2 x 57 1/2 in. (171.5 x 146.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.677
Collections
Not on view
DescriptionA man in a formal outfit, made of gold and red fabrics. He wears a long wig and holds a glove in his hand. His other hand is gloved and he holds a red scroll/batton. ProvenanceFrom the collection of Baron Franchetti, son of Baroness Franchetti (nee Baroness Rothschild of Vienna), proprietor of the Ca d'Oro, Grand Canal, Venice. Collection of Furstlich Liechensteinsche Gemandegalerie, Vienna, Austria, recorded 1873, 1896, 1906. Galerie Jamarin, Paris, March 2, 1954. Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1958. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, 1971.Exhibition History"Mostra Del Ritratto Italiano dal Caravaggio al Tiepolo," Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, IT, 1911. "Exhibition of Italian Art / Italian Painting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, January 26 - February 23, 1958. "Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown Inaugural Exhibition," Chrysler Art Museum, Provincetown, MA, July 1958. "Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effect," Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, April 25 - June 14, 1959. Cat. no. 191. "Venetian Paintings of the 18th Century," Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY, October 31, 1961 - December 16, 1961. Cat. no. 21. "Italian Renaissance and Baroque Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk, VA, December 2, 1967 - May 15, 1968. Cat. no. 71.Published ReferencesCatalog of Furstlich Liechensteinsche, Gemaldegalerie, Vienna, Austria, 1873, no. 426. Catalog _Mostra Del Ritratto Italiano_, p.220. _Mostra Del Ritratto Italiano_ (Venice, IT: 1911) p.215, plate XVII. Tarchiani, Nello, "La Mostra Del Ritratto Italiano", in _Rassegna D'Arte_, 1911, p.91, no. 1. _The Graphic_ (London, April 6, 1912). Birmingham Museum of Art, "Italian Painting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," in _Exhibition of Italian Art_ (Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1958) vol. 6, sec. II, p.12, no. 12. Paolo Delorenzi, _La Galleria di Minerva: Il Ritratto di Rappresentanza nella Venezia del Settecento_ (Verona: Cierre edizioni, 2009), 261 fig. 107, 271 fig. 126.
