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Young Lady in a Tricorn Hat
Giovanni Battista Tiepoloc. 1755/1760
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Young Lady in a Tricorn Hat
- Creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Date Created: c. 1755/1760
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 62.2 x 49.3 cm (24 1/2 x 19 7/16 in.) framed: 80 x 68 x 7.6 cm (31 1/2 x 26 3/4 x 3 in.)
- Provenance: Luigi Pisa, Florence, by 1937;[1] (his sale, Circolo Artistico, Palazzetto del Da Ponte, Venice, 5-9 September 1938, no. 318, repro. as by Alessandro Longhi). Italico Brass, Venice.[2] (Schaeffer Galleries, New York), probably from 1947; sold 21 May 1948 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1952 to NGA. [1] _Catalogue de la Collection Pisa_, preface by Ugo Ojetti, 2 vols., Milan, 1937: 1:114, no. 749, 2:124. A handwritten notation on the back of an old photograph (photographic archives, NGA), reads "Pisani Collection 1932." This information has not been independently corroborated. [2] According to Alessandro Morandotti, _Mostra di pittura veneziana del settecento_, Exh. cat. Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Venice, 1941: 43 (listed as Alessandro Brass); Max Goering, "Tiepolo" in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, _Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart_, Leipzig, 1907-1950: 33:154; and Antonio Morassi, _Tiepolo_, Bergamo, 1943: 28. [3] Inventory card no. 1220 from the Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., confirms the sale of the picture in May of 1948; the ealiest date on the card is 11/28/1947. (Getty Research Institute, copy NGA curatorial files). The purchase from Schaeffer Galleries is also recorded in a typewritten notation, Kress records, NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2492.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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