Allegorical Figure Group „Malerei und Musik“ / „La Pittura, e Musica“

1732 with its counterpart, the allegorical group of figures "Sculpture, Arithmetic and Architecture", paid for (and in all probability commissioned by the artist) by the Field Marshal General in Venetian service Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg (* 1661, † 1747); since 1736 recorded in the inventories of his collection; in February 1739 transferred to the family palace in Berlin's Wilhelmstraße occupied by his nephew Adolf Friedrich von der Schulenburg (* 1685, † 1741); after the latter's death in the Battle of Mollwitz in possession of his brother Christian Günther (* 1684, † 1765) Fideikommiss Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg; at the time of the compilation of the printed inventory Berlin/Hehlen (c. 1750[? ]) until at least c. 1774-76 in the family palace in Berlin Wilhelmstr. 77; by succession to 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); in 1897 described as damaged by Parisius/Brinkmann together with a second marble group and two similar groups of Bertos cast in bronze in Wolfsburg Castle; then moved to the newly built Neumühle Castle near Tangeln, municipality of Beetzendorf in the Altmark district of Salzwedel; probably left there in 1945 when the von der Schulenburg family fled