Antonio Diziani

Exhibited by Rudigier Fine Art Limited

Material Oil on canvas

Dimensions 73.2 × 91.8 cm

Place of Creation Venice

Price €145,000

Status Vetted

About the Work

Signed with monogram “AD”.

The lively and colourful impressive masterpiece by the Venetian Antonio Diziani, one of the most important representatives of landscape capriccios of his day, is a symbol of life and the joy of living.

It depicts a country market on Terra Ferma on a Summer day. Many people of different standing are gathered here. Two Venetian attractions are in the centre of the annual market fair: a stage for improvisation of Commedia dell’arte with Arlecchino, Brighella and Colombina; and right next to it, a puppet theatre.

This painting hang in the great composer’s study above his desk in his villa in Garmisch-Partenkirchen until his death in 1949.

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Provenance

Friedrich Coll., Vienna
Galerie St. Lucas, Vienna, 1937
By whom sold to the Vienna Philharmonic in 1939
By whom presented to Richard Strauss (1864-1949) on the occasion of his 75th birthday: “Richard Strauss zum 11. Juni 1939 von seinen stets getreuen Wiener Philharmonikern“ (see inscription on the reverse of the stretcher frame)
By descent, family of R. Strauss.

Literature

Giuseppe Delogu, “Pitture italiane del ‘600 e del ‘700 a Vienna”, in: L´Arte 40 (1937), pp. 222-241, mentioned p. 241: „alla scarsa produzione conosciuta di Antonio Diziani …può aggiungersi… un‘animata Scena di Mercato…” and illustrated pl. 12.