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Gaspare Diziani
A pair of tavern scenes with peasants drinking, dancing and making music
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July 8, 02:28 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Gaspare Diziani
Belluno 1689 - 1767 Venice
A pair of tavern scenes with peasants drinking, dancing and making music
a pair, both oil on canvas
each unframed: 45.9 x 58.7 cm.; 18⅛ x 23⅛ in.
each framed: 60.2 x 73.2 cm.; 23¾ x 28⅞ in.
(2)
Private collection, Sudbury, Derbyshire.
This pair of paintings should be compared to the series of four interior and exterior genre scenes by Diziani, of slightly smaller dimensions (38 x 54 cm.), recorded in a private collection, Padua.1 These canvases are datable to circa 1750, as are several larger canvases of similar style and subject matter, such as the Scene in a tavern (71.5 x 94 cm.), recorded in the collection of M. Scaglia, Milan.2
We are grateful to Professor Dario Succi for endorsing the attribution to Gaspare Diziani on the basis of digital images.
1 See A.P. Zugni-Tauro, Gaspare Diziani, Venice 1971, p. 81, reproduced plates 143-46.
2 http://catalogo.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/scheda/opera/68755/