Luigi Ademollo
(Milan, 1764 - Florence, 1849)
THE TOILET OF VENUS
oil on canvas, 96x122 cm
TOLETTA DI VENERE
olio su tela, cm 96x122
Provenance
Siena, Palazzo Sergardi;
Florence, antiques market, (80er Jahre);
Private Collection.
Literature
C. Danti, Per l’arte neoclassica e romantica a Siena, in “Bullettino senese di storia patria”, 88, 1981, pp. 115-168 (specifically pp. 124–34; for the painting, p. 129 note 52, where two overdoor paintings depicting Venus and Diana respectively are mentioned as existing in the hall of Bacchus and Ariadne.);
C. Sisi, I committenti del Neoclassicismo, in La cultura artistica a Siena nell’Ottocento, edited by C. Sisi and E. Spalletti, Siena 1994, p. 99, fig. 55;
C. Sisi, Manifestazioni del gusto, in L’Ottocento in Italia. Le arti sorelle. Il Neoclassicismo 1789-1815, edited by C. Sisi, Milan 2005, p. 181, fig. 203;
Luigi Ademollo (1764-1849). L’enfasi narrativa di un pittore neoclassico. Olii, disegni e tempere, exhibition catalogue (Rome, Galleria Carlo Virgilio, 27 February - 12 April 2008), edited by F. Leone, Rome 2008, p. 12 fig. 8.