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Pietro Longhi, born Pietro Falca, observed eighteenth-century Venetian society through small paintings. Trained by Antonio Balestra, he moved from history painting to scenes of everyday life. The National Gallery’s Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice, probably painted in 1751, shows Clara before an audience that includes several masked spectators. Carnival entertainment thus becomes a subject for painting.
In The Tickle at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, around 1755, a young woman brushes a feather against a sleeping man’s face while two maids look on. Drawings in the Museo Correr prepare individual gestures within the composition. Elegant interiors, visits and leisure activities form a repertoire valued by Venetian families, in which clothing and bodily attitudes make the customs of social life visible.
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Dobiaschofsky · Piguet
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Oil on canvas
Umkreis
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2019-05-11
Published result : 300 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 600
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Oil on canvas
Attribué à Pietro Longhi — Jeune noble vénitienne
huile sur toile
attr. à
Catalogue period : 2022-03-01 — 2022-03-16
Attributed to
Published result : 7500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
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