The Whore's Revenge

Later Casanova portraits

Nigel Bruce

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Later Casanova portraits
Portrait of Casanova now attributed to Francesco Narici and previously attributed to Anton Raphael Mengs or to his student Giovanni Battista Casanova (Giacomo's brother) circa 1760.

The portrait of Casanova below is said to be around 1788 when he was 63 years old and living in Bohemia at Dux (Duchcov). It is an engraving that appeared in the front of his only work of fiction, Icosameron (1788), a long and rambling utopian fantasy which had the helpful sub-title of "Or the Story of Edward and Elizabeth Who Spent Eighty-One Years in the Land of the Megamicres, Original Inhabitants of Protocosmos in the Interior of the Globe." It was first published in English, belatedly, in 1986.

This portrait of Casanova is said to be around 1788 when he was 63 years old.
Engraving by Czech artist and engraver Johann Berka, used as frontispice for Icosameron (1788)

Below is a possible portrait from around 1774 when Casanova was almost 50. It's a photo dating back to the 1930's of a painting by Venetian portrait painter Alessandro Longhi.

Collezione Gritti, Venezia

The Toledo Museum of Art claims this portrait by Alessandro Longhi circa 1775 is possibly Casanova.