ROSALBA CARRIERA, successor of the 18th cent. (1675 Venice 1757) Young woman with laurel wreath, nymph of the Apollo sequence. Pastel on paper on canvas. 66 × 54.5 cm. Provenance: - Antichità Pietro Scarpa, Venice, 2005. - Auction Koller, Zurich, 23.9.2022, lot 3075. - Swiss collection. Exhibition: Lodève 2000, Peintres de Venise de Titien à Canaletto. Musée de Lodève, 1 July - 10 November 2000, no. 43. Literature: Neil Jeffares: Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London 2006, p. 5, no. J.21.1745, with illus. (version 28.7.2022). This pastel is based on a composition by Rosalba Carriera, which is in the Musée du Louvre in Paris (inv. no. 4800). We are grateful to Neil Jeffares for his help in cataloguing this painting on the basis of a photograph. These objects marked with * (asterisk) are fully subject to VAT, i.e. VAT will be charged on the hammer price plus buyer's premium. Buyers who present a legally stamped export declaration will be reimbursed the VAT.