Rosalba Carriera

Possibly Duke of Saint Albans, Portland Place;

Possibly his sale, London, Christie’s, 27 March 1802, lot 61 (part of lot);

Possibly John Seguier, Superintendent of the British Institution,

thence by inheritance to his nephew, Frederick Peter Seguier,

his sale, London, Christie’s, 7 February 1903, lot 36 (as one of a pair: Two Heads of Ladies, with flowers in their hair);

Alfred Strölin, Paris;

With Etienne Bréton Fine Art, Paris;

From whom acquired, December 2008.  

B. Sani, “Tra disegno e pittura: il pastello comme tecnica sperimentale da Federico Barocci a Rosalba Carriera,” in Federico Barocci. L’incanto del colore. Una lezione per due secoli, exhibition catalogue, A. Gionnotti and C. Pizzorusso (eds.), Milan 2009, p. 240, reproduced fig. 168;

M. Shelley, “Painting in the Dry Manner: The Flourishing of Pastel in 18^th Century Europe,” in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 68, no. 4, (Spring 2011), pp. 8-11, 23, cat. no. 3, reproduced;

K. Baetjer and M. Shelley, Pastel Portraits: Images of 18^th Century Europe, exhibition catalogue, New York 2011 (reprint of the above), pp. 8-11, cat. no. 3, reproduced;

N. Jeffares, "Rosalba Carriera," Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London 2006, online edition [http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/Carriera1.pdf], accessed 31 May 2023, cat. no. J.21.0357, reproduced.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th Century Europe, 2011, no. 3 (a color image of this pastel was used to illustrate the poster for the exhibition)