Elieser und Rebekka am Brunnen

c. 1745/1750

not on display

Francesco Capella, known as il Daggiù1711 Venedig – 1774 Bergamo

Giovanni Battista Piazetta historical attribution1682 Venedig – 1754 Venedig

We have 2 artworks by Francesco Capella, known as il Daggiù online. We have 1 artwork by Giovanni Battista Piazetta online.
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Eliezer, the trustee of Abraham's estate, is sent to Syria as a suitor for Isaac. Rebecca gives him a drink at the well and also draws the water for his camels. Eliezer recognizes the sign of God and bestows a gift on the beautiful virgin, the future wife of Isaac (Genesis, XXIV). The theme treated also by Piazzetta, to whom the painting of his pupil is still very close, was popular in the Settecento, it allowed the evocation of a quasi genre-galant biblical Arcadia. Counterpart to inv. 869.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

Elieser and Rebecca at the Fountain

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 95 x 138.5 cm

Inventory number

868

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, 1908

Signature

Inscriptions

Accession year

1908

Provenance

Francesco Capella, genannt il Daggiù (*1711 Venedig, +1774 Bergamo) (Künstler/-in)
Verbleib unbekannt
o.D. – 1908, Baugenossenschaft Phönix, Zürich
ab 1908, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Geschenk der Baugenossenschaft Phönix, 1908 (aus Abbruchliegenschaft)

About the provenance

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Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 128. - Ugo Ruggeri: Francesco Capella detto Daggiù. Dipinti e disegni, Bergamo: Monumenta Bergomensia, 1977, S. 19, 61, 173. - Giambattista Piazzetta. Il suo tempo, la sua scuola, Ausst.-Kat. Ca'Loredan Vendramin Calergi, Venedig: Marsilio Editori, 1983, No. 51 [als Francesco Capella]. - Rodolfo Pallucchini/Adriano Mariuz: L'opera completa del Piazzetta [Werkverzeichnis], Mailand: Rizzoli Editore, 1982, No. A 150 [als ehemals Piazzetta zugeschrieben]. - Venezianische Kunst in der Schweiz und in Liechtenstein, hrsg. von Günter Passavant, Ausst.-Kat. Seedamm-Kulturzentrum/Musée d'art et d'histoire, 1978, No. 117 [als Giuseppe Angeli]. - Alice Binion: «Francesco Capella. Dipinti e Disegni by Ugo Ruggeri», in: The Art Bulletin Vol. 63, No. 1, New York, NY: College Art Association, 2012, S. 168-169, No. 1, S. 168 f. [als Capella in Koop. mit Piazzetta, oder Piazzetta (?)]. - Rodolfo Pallucchini: La pittura nel Veneto. Il Settecento, Bd. II, Milano: Electa, 1996, S. 180 [als Capella]. - Rodolfo Pallucchini: «Francesco Daggiù detto il Cappella», in: Rivista di Venezia, No. 7, 1932, S. 315-326, S. 319.

Object type

painting

Classification

B 1[3] painting 16th to 18th century ITA, FRA and ESP

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