239 Gal. no. P 11 Deaccessioned 1924 Portrait of Charles Edward Stuart c. 1737 Pastel on paper, 55 × 42 cm Description in Woermann 1887: Half-length, without hands, facing left, on a light-blue and cloudy grey ground. Brown eyes, grey powdered hair. Coat with a yellow floral pattern, blue waistcoat with a blue floral pattern. Breast star and blue sash of an order. At the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden, this work was long considered to be a portrait of the Cardinal of York (Henry Benedict Stuart, Charles Edward Stuart’s younger brother) and was thus titled The Cardinal of York. As Carriera’s pastel P 76 had already been deaccessioned from the Gemäldegalerie in 1922, P 11 was handed over as a replacement to the Verein or association representing the Wettin dynasty, in accordance with the settlement (Auseinandersetzungsvertrag) of 1924. Several versions of this subject exist (see cat. 97), and these works also have varying dimensions. Since no image is available of the Dresden version, it is impossible to definitively identify the present work. A version from the Pálffy collection (recorded there since 1908) was auctioned in 1924 and is very similar to the Dresden version. The provenance provided for that work at the sale, decades later, at Christie’s London (4 July 1995, lot 117 [= Jeffares J.21.0377]) was partially incorrect as it correlated to that of the Dresden version, although it is not the same work. Literature: Riedel, Wenzel 1765, p. 239; Woermann 1887, p. 761; Sani 1988, p. 317, no. 312(?); Sani 2007, pp. 320f., no. 362(?); Henning 2009, p. 328, III–2; Jeffares online edition, J.21.0369(?, cf. J.21.0374 and J.21.0377); cf. exh. cat. Bad Pistyan 1924, p. 11, no. 40, pl. V (as Josef II als Kind, or Joseph II as a Child). Gal. no. P 12 Exchanged 1946 Portrait of Count Giovanni Pietro Minelli 1720–1730 Pastel on paper, 53 × 43 cm Gifted by Minelli to Dresden; in 1933 (also possibly later?), the pastel was in the Residenzschloss in Dresden. In 1946, the pastel P 12 (together with P 13, P 19, and P 36) was exchanged at Kunsthandlung Paul Rusch, Dresden, for Ernst Erwin Oehme’s In the Enchanted Forest (gal. no. 2689) and Albert Zeh’s Landscape with Baptismal Group (gal. no. 2701). Literature: Riedel, Wenzel 1765, p. 240; Woermann 1887, p. 761; Sani 2007, p. 371, no. 424; Henning 2009, p. 329, III–3; Wohlfarth 2010, p. 292; Jeffares online edition, J.21.0767. Gal. no. P 13 Exchanged 1946 Portrait of Countess Camilla Minelli 1720–1730 Pastel on paper, 54.5 × 42.5 cm Gifted by Minelli to Dresden. In 1946, the pastel P 13 (together with P 12, P 19, and P 36) was exchanged at Kunsthandlung Paul Rusch, Dresden, for Ernst Erwin Oehme’s In the Enchanted Forest (gal. no. 2689) and Albert Zeh’s Landscape with Baptismal Group (gal. no. 2701). Literature: Riedel, Wenzel 1765, p. 240; Woermann 1887, p. 761; Sani 1985, vol. 2, pp. 697f., n. 1; Sani 2007, p. 371, no. 425; Henning 2009, p. 329, III–4; Wohlfarth 2010, p. 292; Jeffares online edition, J.21.0768. Gal. no. P 14 Lost since 1945 Portrait of Countess Recanati (née Fiorenza Ravagnin?) Pastel on paper, 54 × 42 cm Possibly acquired 1750 from the Recanati collection, Venice(?) The sales list of the Recanati collection from 1750 includes a (possibly identical?) pastel portrait of a “Wife”; the matching “Husband” is identified with the larger painting P 73 (cf. cat. Gal. no. P 12 Gal. no. P 13 Gal. no. P 14
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