The Holy Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo1754/1762

Details

Title: The Holy Family
Creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Date Created: 1754/1762
Physical Dimensions: sheet: 22.3 x 19.2 cm (8 3/4 x 7 9/16 in.)
Provenance: Library of the monastery of the Padri Somaschi, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice. Count Leopoldo Cicognara. Antonio Canova; by descent to his half-brother, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori-Canova. Francesco Pesaro, Venice, until 1842; Col. Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire (1803 - 1884) (see Lugt 444); by descent to his brother-in-law, Col. Alfred Capel Cure, Blake Hall, Essex. (sale, Sotheby's London, 29 April 1885, no. 1024); Parsons. William Fagg, Sydenham. Messrs. B. T. Batsford, London. (sale, Christie's London, 14 July 1914, lot 49); (E. Parsons & Sons, London) (see Lugt supplement, 2881). (Savile Gallery, London). Franz Koenigs, Haarlem (1881 - 1941) (Lugt 1023a). D. G. van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Dr. Max J. Friedländer, Amsterdam; (his sale, Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 17 March 1959, no. 29). Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich; Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Rights: CC0
Medium: pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash on cream laid paper

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