LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

13.15 in. (33.40 cm.) (height) by 19.21 in. (48.80 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Venice, Ca’ Rezzonico, Feste e maschere veneziane, 6 May-31 October 1937, no. VII.5, as ‘Giambattista Tiepolo’. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Loan exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints of the two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico, 4 February-6 March 1938, no. 26, as ‘Giambattista Tiepolo’. San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Venetian painting from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth century, 25 June-24 July 1938, no. 63, as ‘Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’. Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Venice 1700-1800: An exhibition of Venice and the Eighteenth Century, 30 September-2 November 1952, no. 71, as ‘Giambattista Tiepolo’. Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Institute, Pictures of Everyday Life. Genre Painting in Europe 1550-1900, 14 October-12 December 1954, no. 48, as ‘Giambattista Tiepolo’.

Literature:

A.C., 'Venezia: La Mostra delle feste maschere veneziane', Emporium, July 1937, LXXXVI, p. 397. M. Goering, 'Domenico Tiepolo', Thieme-Becker Künstlerlexicon, Leipzig, 1939, XXXIII, p. 273. A. Morassi, 'Domenico Tiepolo', Emporium, June 1941, pp. 271 and 273. G. Fiocco, 'Tiepolo in Spagna', Le Arti, October 1942, pp. 9-10, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'. A. Morassi, 'Una mostra del Settecento a Detroit', Arte Veneta, 1953, p. 54, as 'Domenico'. A. Morassi, A complete catalogue of the paintings of G.B. Tiepolo, London, 1962, p. 35, as 'Domenico'. J. Byam-Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, pp. 14-15. A. Mariuz, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Venice, 1971, pp. 129-30, no. 193. A. Rizzi, Mostra del Tiepolo, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1971, p. 167, fig. 106. E. Fahy (ed.), The Wrightsman Pictures, New Haven and London, 2005, under cat. no. 30, pp. 104-6, note 2.

Provenance:

Harald Bendixson, Roxley House, Hertfordshire; Christie’s, London, 5 July 1929, lot 147, sold with its pendant (1,950 gns. to Destramm). with Wildenstein, Paris and New York, until at least 1938. Maurice de Rothschild (1881-1957), Paris, from whom purchased in circa 1952 by, Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Mayer, Tarrytown, New York, and by descent to, Cecile Lehman Mayer, Tarrytown, New York, and by descent to, Susan Lehman Cullman, New York, and by descent to, Anonymous sale [The Property of a Private Collector]; Christie’s, London, 6 December 2007, lot 41, where acquired by the present owner.