Gustaf Lundberg
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Venus with a white dove
Executed 1720-21. Pastel 53 x 42 cm. Period richly carved and gilded frame in rococo.
Provenance
Earlier in Count Carl Gustaf Tessins collection, Åkerö estate, Sweden. Bought by his nephew Count Fredrik Sparre.
In the early 1800s in Mr Samuel Owens collection.
Bukowskis auctionhouse, auction 532, 25-28 May 2005, catalogue no 531.
Literature
The pastel is mentioned in C. G. Tessins own list from 1741 with the price of 556 livres.
In the Åkerö inventory from 1757 the pastel is mentioned as "Venetianskt Portrait".
Catalogue d'une collection, Première Partie, Assemble de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture à Stockholm, 1785, mentioned at p. 1, catalogue no 2.
Oscar Levertin, "G. Lundberg - En studie", 1902, mentioned at p. 34.
Neil Jeffares, "Dictionary of pastellists before 1800", 2006, listed and ill. at p. 366.
Åmells Konsthandel, Stockholm, "Från Makalös till Haupt", described and ill in article by Roger de Robelin and Pierre Olbers, catalogue no 16.
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