Caterina Sagredo Barbarigo as "Berenice", ca. 1741

  • Rosalba Giovanna Carriera, Italian, 1675-1757

Pastel on gray-blue laid paper, mounted onto thin canvas

  • Sheet: 17 15/16 × 13 11/16 × 1/2 inches (45.6 × 34.8 × 1.3 cm)
  • 27 3/8 inches × 22 3/8 inches × 2 inches (69.5 × 56.8 × 5.1 cm)

Gift of Mrs. William D. Vogel in memory of her mother Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth

56.264

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

1741, probably sold in (Venice, Italy)

June-July 1741, purchased by Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, later 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne [1720-1794] (listed in the catalogue of the Newcastle collection at Clumber, 1914/23, no. 315) (England)

October 25, 1946, sold by (Christie's, London, England) no. 59C

Arturo Grassi (New York, New York, USA)

Ralph H. Booth (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. Ralph H. Booth (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

gift to her daughter, Mrs. Virginia Booth Vogel (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1956-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hipkin, William John. Descriptive catalogue of the pictures, pastel drawings, water-colour drawings, engravings, & c: belonging to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle at Clumber House, Workshop in the county of Nottingham, 1914. London, 1923, no. 315. "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums: January-March 1957." Art Quarterly 20, 2 (Summer 1957): p. 206. Sani, Bernardina. Rosalba Carriera. Turin, 1988, p. 322; no. 342 (fig. 300). Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 98-99, no. 43, p. 141 (pl. xiii). Manning, Robert L. A Loan Exhibition of Venetian Paintings of the 18th Century. Exh. cat., Finch College Museum of Art. New York, 1961, no. 9. Payne, Elizabeth H. "A Venetian Portrait in Pastel." Bulletin of the DIA 37, 1, (1957/8): p. 4 (ill.). Richardson, E.P. Venice 1700-1800: An Exhibition of Venice and the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and John Heron Art Museum. Detroit and Indianapolis, 1952, no. 21. Sani, Bernardina. Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757): maestra del pastello nell’Europa ancien régime. Turin, 2007, p. 347; no. 398 (ill.). Saska, Hope. Learning by Line: The Role of Drawing in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2009, pp. 5 (ill.); 13. van Oppen de Ruiter, Branko. Berenice II Euergetis: Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship. New York, 2015, pp. 67-70 (pl. 3.15). Straussman-Pflanzer, Eve, and Oliver Tostmann, eds. By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800. Exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and DIA. Detroit, 2021, pp. 9; 140; 167-169 (ill.); cat. 57 (fig. 2).

Rosalba Giovanna Carriera, Caterina Sagredo Barbarigo as "Berenice", ca. 1741, pastel on gray-blue laid paper, mounted onto thin canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William D. Vogel in memory of her mother Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth, 56.264.