GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696–1770)
Tarquinius and Lucretia
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Provenance
Probably the painting commissioned by Almorò Barbaro for Palazzo Barbaro (c. 1750 – d. 1754);
And by descent to Elisa Bassi, Palazzo Barbaro, after 1860, until sold;
With H. J. Pfunget (or Pfungst), London, and subsequently consigned to Christie’s, Manson & Woods, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures by Old Masters of William Matheson, Esq., deceased, late of Leeds; and of Henry Buckle, Esq., Deceased, late Cumberland Terrace, and Brighton; also an assemblage of Pictures from Private Collections, London, 9 March 1895, lot 72 (as ‘TIEPOLO, Lucretia, From the Barbaro Palace, Venice’);
Acquired by Martin Henry Colnaghi, for Colnaghi, London;
Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, Marquis de Biron, Geneva, Switzerland;
Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., New York;
From whom acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Ayers in 1940, for the Art Institute of Zanesville, now the Zanesville Art Centre;
Sale, New York, Sotheby’s, Important Old Master Paintings, 27 January 2006, lot 211 (as Studio of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo);
Private collection, Madrid;
Sale, Madrid, Fernando Durán, 31 March 2022, lot 798 (as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo);
Where acquired by the present owners.
Literature
Art Institute Fifth Anniversary of the Opening Catalogue, Zanesville, Ohio 1940, p. 1;
Art Institute of Zanesville, Ohio, Catalogue 1942, Zanesville 1942, p. 6, cat. no. 2 (as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo);
Dayton Art Institute, Old Masters from Midwestern Museums, exh. cat., Dayton 1948, cat. no. 16 (as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo);
A. Morassi, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G. B. Tiepolo, London 1962, p. 69 (as Workshop of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo)
B. Frederickson & F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, MA 1972, pp. 198, 651 (as Studio of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo).
Exhibitions / Fairs
Dayton, Ohio, Old Masters from Midwestern Museums, 5 March – 19 April 1948, no. 16 (as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo).
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