Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Vienna 1699 – Venice 1760)
Three couples in exotic dress dancing in front of a fire
Oil on canvas, 46 x 64 cm

Provenance:
One of a set of forty-three quadri Turchi painted in 1742-3 for Field Marshal Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747), Palazzo Loredan a San Trovaso, Venice;
Bequeathed to his nephew Christian Gunter von der Schulenburg, Berlin;
Thence by family inheritance and descent.

Exhibited:
Berlin, Europa und der Orient 800-1900, 1989, no. 13/1 Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Guardi. Quadri turcheschi, exh. catalogue, 1993, no. 11
Gorizia, Palazzo della Torre, Le Meraviglie di Venezia, 2008, no. 55