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Allegory of faith

„La Fede Velata“

Lost Art-ID

596673

Wolfsburg Palace, corridor garden wing 2nd floor, 1924/around 1930(?), House Archive of the Counts von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, 826 (photo album ‘Wolfsburg 1924’), Photograph: Walter Hege, further print in the Institute for Contemporary History and City Presentation, City of Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg Palace, corridor garden wing 2nd floor, photo: BLaDM, Meßbildarchiv, 37 b 13_5311,16 (also: Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, mi03224f04a), detail enlargement, a similar photograph by the photographer Walter Hege is in the Institute for Contemporary History and City Presentation, City of Wolfsburg

Enlargement of the sculpture, from Photo BLaDM, Meßbildarchiv, 37 b 13_5311,16

Photo taken around 1924 or 1930, House Archive of the Counts von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, 826 (Photo album ‘Wolfsburg 1924’)

Artist / Creator

Corradini, Antonio

Birth

19.10.1688, Venedig

Death

12.08.1752, Neapel

Place of activity

Venedig; Wien; Prag; Rom; Neapel

Title

Allegory of faith

Additional title

„La Fede Velata“

Dating

1718/1721

Object type

Sculpture

Group of reported objects

Sculpture

Material / Technique

Marble

Measures

H 80 cm - 90 cm (estimated), H with plinth 180 cm

Description

A whole female figure seated on the ground, her gaze turned to the right, dressed in a richly pleated antique garment; her face turned to the right under a veil revealing her facial features, her right arm hanging down, her left arm resting on her lap, gathering the garment. The figure rests on an unhewn pedestal and a contemporary marble base. It seems to be clearly worked on a frontal view, the left arm is only rather roughly, clumsily executed.

Antonio Corradini owed much of his fame to allegorical figures of veiled women.

The "Fede velata" was undoubtedly one of the main works in the famous collection of Field Marshal Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg, which was built up in Venice. Apart from a few folds, the work corresponds to an almost identical figure by Corradini, which was placed around 1721 as one of the assistant figures of the altar of Emma (Hemma) of Gurk in the cathedral of Gurk in Carinthia.

Provenance

Since at least 1736 in the collection of General Field Marshal in Venetian service Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg (* 1661, † 1747) and with some probability commissioned by him from the artist; in February 1739 moved to the family palace in Berlin's Wilhelmstraße occupied by his nephew Adolf Friedrich von der Schulenburg (* 1685, † 1741); after his death in the Battle of Mollwitz, into the possession of his brother Christian Günther (* 1684, † 1765); Fideikommiss Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg; by succession into the Wolfsburg branch of the von der Schulenburg family. Before 1942 Wolfsburg Palace (until 1932 Gardelegen County, Province of Saxony; then Gifhorn County, Province of Hanover; today City of Wolfsburg); then moved to the newly built Neumühle Palace near Tangeln, municipality of Beetzendorf in the Altmark County of Salzwedel; probably left there in 1945 when the von der Schulenburg family fled (last documented in Wolfsburg Palace by photo around 1930/35); whereabouts unknown

Literature / Source

Dokumentiert in der Sammlung des Feldmarschalls M. J. von der Schulenburg und seiner Erben in Venedig und Berlin durch eine Vielzahl von Inventaren und andere zeitgenössische Quellen; Inventarliste von Schloß Wolfsburg, Winter 1889, Wolfsburg, Hausarchiv der Grafen von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, 659; Parisius, A./Brinkmann, A.: Beschreibende Darstellung der älteren Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Gardelegen, Hrsg.: Historische Commission der Provinz Sachsen, Halle a. d. Saale 1897, S. 203; Binion, A.: La galleria scomparsa del maresciallo von der Schulenburg, Milano 1990, S. 127; Zahlten, J.: Schloß Wolfsburg, hg. v. d. Stadt Wolfsburg. Stadtarchiv, Braunschweig 1991, Abb. 30, S. 38 [fälschlich als in Besitz von Dr. Günzel Graf von der Schulenburg-Nordsteimke]; Cogo, B.: Antonio Corradini. Scultore veneziano 1688-1752, Este (PD) 1996, S. 49/50 u. Nr. 15, S. 190-92; Bacchi, A. (Hg.): La scultura a Venezia da Sansovino a Canova, Milano 2000, S. 727; Krellig, H.: Feldmarschall und Kunstsammler. Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg (1661–1747). Ein unbekannter Bestand von Kunstwerken aus seiner Sammlung im Besitz der Grafen von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 2011, S. 67 u. 69 (Abb.); Benuzzi, F.: Committenze europee di scultura veneziana nel Settecento. Una panoramica e alcune ipotesi di lavoro, in: RIHA Journal 101, 2014, o. P. (11), unter Nr. [7]; Guerriero, S.: Sculpteurs venitiens pour les cours et les collectionneurs d'Europe, in: Loisel, C. (Hg.in): Éblouissante Venise. Venise, les arts et l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle, Ausst.-kat. Paris, Grand Palais [2018], S. 160-66, bes. 164; Krellig, H.: After 1716: Strategies of Fame and Signs of Gratitude in the Republic of Venice, in: Οθωμανικη Αυτοκρατια και Βενετια.Η πολιοϱχια της Κεϱχυϱας απο Οθωμανους το 1716 / The Ottoman Empire and Venice. The Ottoman Siege of Corfu in 1716. International scientific congress, Corfu, 21–23 October 2016, Hg.: N. E. Karapidakis und A. D. Nikiforou, Municipitality of Corfu. Regional Union of Municipalities of Ionian Islands, Corfu/Κεϱκυρα 2019, S. 239–80, 477–84, hier: 269/70.

Published since

19.11.2021

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