Lot 181: Ludovico Gallina , Brescia 1752-1787 Venice portrait of Doge Paolo Renier (1710-1789), half length, wearing a white fur cape oil on canvas, oval

oil on canvas, oval

measurements note 78 by 65 cm.; 30 3/4 by 25 1/2 in.

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
The present portrait was painted around the time of Doge Renier's ascension in 1779. As the penultimate doge of Venice, he ruled until 1789. The portrait can be compared with Gallina's three-quarter length portrait in the Correr Museum in Venice (see C. Donzelli, I pittori veneti del settecento, Florence 1957, p. 96, plate 131).