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| Pietro Longhi The Hairdresser (Il Perrucchiere) 1760 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi The Hairdresser (La Pettinatrice) 1760 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi The Toilette 1760 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi The Fitting ca. 1755-60 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi Portrait of a Patrician Family 1752 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi Family Concert 1752 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi The Masked Visitor 1760 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi The Visit to the Convent 1760 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi The Painter in his Studio ca. 1740-46 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
"A student of Antonio Balestra of Verona, Pietro Longhi began his career in 1732 as a painter of altarpieces. In Bologna around 1730 he had become acquainted with Giuseppe Maria Crespi's tradition of painting the lives of common folk. Longhi soon began painting genre scenes of the life of peasants and servants, and later the customs of the Venetian nobility in a sort of updated international style derived from French and English models. Contemporary Venetian artists Rosalba Carriera and Jacopo Amigoni were among those who influenced his work in soft, delicate tones and precious, luminous chromaticism. In his prolific work in the service of patrician Venice, he captured fragments of Venetian life with great powers of observation and biting irony: the settings are aristocratic palaces, bourgeois mansions, and the city's narrow, colorful campielli."
– Daniela Tarabra, European Art of the Eighteenth Century, translated by Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia (Getty Museum, 2008)
"This painting documents an unusual event in Venice, the exhibition of a rhinoceros. An animal until then unknown in Italy, it created a sensation throughout Europe."
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| Pietro Longhi The Fortune Teller 1752 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi The Perfume Seller ca. 1756 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi The Charlatan 1757 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi The Rhinoceros 1751 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
"This painting documents an unusual event in Venice, the exhibition of a rhinoceros. An animal until then unknown in Italy, it created a sensation throughout Europe."
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| Pietro Longhi La Furlana 1750 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi La Polenta 1740 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pietro Longhi The Doughnut Seller 1755 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |