LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

28.23 in. (71.70 cm.) (height) by 42.01 in. (106.70 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Fort Worth, Texas, Kimball Art Museum, Old Master Paintings: Cranach to Corot, 23 January-14 March 1982, no. 16. Fort Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, Giambattista Tiepolo: Master of the Oil Sketch, 18 September-12 December 1993, no. 34. Paris, France, Musée Jacquemart André, Les Fresques de Tiepolo, 19 October-18 January 1999.

Literature:

F. Algarotti, Opera del Conte Algarotti, Livorno, 1764, VI, p. 39. G. Selva, Catalogo dei quadri, dei disegni, e dei libri che trattano dell'arte del disegno della galleria del fu Sig. Conte Algarotti in Venezia, Venice, [n.d.; post 1776], p. XXIV. M.G. Bottari and S. Ticozzi, Raccolta di lettere sulla pittura, scultura ed architettura scritte da' più celebri personaggi dei secoli XV, XVI, e XVII, 1822, VII, p. 396. H. de Chennevières, 'Les Tiepolos de l'Hotel Edouard André' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XV, 1896, pp. 121-130. P. Molmenti, G.B. Tiepolo: La sua vita e le sue opere, Milan, 1909, pp. 252-254. E. Sack, Giambattista und Domenico Tiepolo, Hamburg, 1910, pp. 118, 183, 188 and 215, no. 323. P. Molmenti, Tiepolo: La vie et l'oeuvre du Peintre, Paris, 1911, pp. 194-196. Catalogue Itineraire, Musée Jacquemart-André Paris, 1929, p. 104, no. 725. M. Levey, 'Two Paintings by Tiepolo from the Algarotti Collection', Burlington Magazine, CII, June 1960, p. 257. A. Morassi, Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G.B. Tiepolo, London, 1962, pp. 5, 13 and 36. A. Palluchini and G. Piovene, L'Opera completa di Giambattista Tiepolo, Milan, 1968, p. 115. M. Precerutti Garberi, Affreschi settecenteschi delle ville venete, Milan, 1968, p. 138. F. Haskell, Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations Between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque, 2nd ed., New Haven and London, 1980, p. 357. C. Wright, Catalogue of Old Master Paintings from a Private Collection in the United States, London, 1984, pp. 87-90. The Complete Catalogue of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, New York, 1986, p. 74. M. Levey, Giambattista Tiepolo: His Life and Art, New Haven, 1986, p. 139. B.L. Brown et al., Giambattista Tiepolo: Master of the Oil Sketch, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1993, pp. 113, 246-249, no. 34. M. Gemin and F. Pedrocco, Giambattista Tiepolo, i dipinti: Opera completa, Venice, 1993, pp. 388-389, no. 361a. C. Whistler, 'Review: Tiepolo Oil Sketches. Fort Worth', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXV, no. 1089, p. 859.

Provenance:

Count Francesco Algarotti, Venice, by 1756. Wilhelm Rothschild, Schloss Grünberg, Frankfurt am Main, and (presumably) by descent to his daughter, Adelheid de Rothschild, and by descent in the Rothschild family; Confiscated in Paris by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi Occupation of Paris, May 1940; Acquired for Hermann Goering on 4 December 1941 (inv. RM 1150); Transferred to the Munich Collecting Point by Western Allied Forces (MCCP no. 6759); Repatriated to Paris on 19 September 1946. Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Château de Prégny, Geneva, until 1980. with Colnaghi's, London, 1981, where acquired by. S.T. Fee, Oklahoma City; Christie's, New York, 9 May 1985, lot 20. with Newhouse Galleries, New York, from whom acquired by the present owner.