Important Old Master Paintings

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Lot 211
  • 211

Studio of Giambattista Tiepolo Venice 1696 - 1770 Madrid

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Description

  • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
  • Tarquin and Lucrezia
  • oval, oil on canvas

Provenance

Marquis de Biron, Geneva, Switzerland;
Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., New York;
From whom acquired by Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Ayers in 1940 for the Art Institute of Zanesville, now the Zanesville Art Center.

 

 

Exhibited

Zanesville, Ohio, Art Institute, Fifth Anniversary of the Opening, October, 1940, cat. no. 2 (as Tiepolo);
Dayton, Ohio, The Dayton Art Insitute, Old Masters from Midwestern Museums, March 5- April 19, 1948, cat. no. 16 (as Tiepolo).

Literature

Art Institute Fifth Anniversary of the Opening Catalogue, Zanesville, Ohio 1940, p. 1.
Art Institute Zanesville, Ohio, Catalogue 1942, Zanesville 1942, p. 6, no. 2 (as Tiepolo);
A. Morassi, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G.B. Tiepolo, London 1962, p. 69 (as Workshop of Tiepolo);
B. Frederickson and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, MA 1972, pp. 198, 651 (as Studio of Tiepolo).

Catalogue Note

This painting repeats a composition by Tiepolo, painted for the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice, now in the collection of the Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Augsburg.