Details
AFTER PAOLO CALIARI, CALLED PAOLO VERONESE
An allegory of abundance
oil on paper, laid down on millboard
18 x 1414 in. (45.7 x 36.2 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Dorotheum, Vienna, 18 October 1994, lot 67, as 'Paolo Veronese', where acquired by Alice and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Literature
(Possibly) T. Pignatti, Veronese: L'Opera Completa, Venice, 1976, I, p. 237, as a lost work.
T. Pignatti and F. Pedrocco, Veronese, Milan, 1995, I, pp. 153, 187 and 210, illustrated, as the 'bozzetto (?)' for the finished fresco at Villa Maser, the attribution to Veronese 'credible'.
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Lot Essay

This is a copy of a scene from Paolo Veronese’s (1528-1588) famous decorations for Andrea Palladio’s Villa di Maser, Veneto, commissioned by the Barbaro family around the 1560s. This particular subject is found on the ceiling of the Stanza del Cane and possibly shows Abundance being restrained by the figure of Discord, whilst Prudence watches on from the lower-left corner (for further discussion of the iconography, see R. Cocke, ‘Veronese and Daniele Barbaro: The Decoration of Villa Maser’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XXXV, 1972, p. 237).

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