Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Madonna of the Rosary with Angels

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Artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian (Venetian), 1696–1770)Italian (Venetian), 1696–1770

CultureItalian (Venetian)

Titles

Madonna of the Rosary with Angels

Date1735

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 94 1/2 × 61 1/2 in. (240 × 156.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Endowment

Object number2023.568

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

209 Nicandros Gallery

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenancePossibly [George Stanley, London, 31 March 1824, lot 6];John Webb, Esq., London; [Harry Phillips, London,11 June 1829, lot 201]; Michael Peacock, London; [Foster’s, London, 28 February 1844, lot 29]; Lake Collection; Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1797–1864), called Munro of Novar, London; His Estate sale, [Christie's, London, 1 June 1878, lot 116 (dated incorrectly to 1734)]; [Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1878–1898]; Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, 1st Bart. (1840–1929), Dudley House, London; His sale, [Christie's, London, 6 July 1923, lot 45]; Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, 1st Bart. (bought back); By inheritance to his daughter, Princess Natale Labia (née Ida Louise Robinson), London; By inheritance to her two sons, Prince Giuseppe B.R. Labia and Count Natale Antonio Labia; [Sotheby’s, London, 5 July 1989, lot 73]; [Wildenstein & Co., Inc.]; [Sotheby’s, New York, 29 January 2020, lot 61]; Forever Ltd.; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, Royal Academy of Arts, The Robinson Collection, 2 July - 14 September 1958, no. 35, reproduced no. 10

Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, The Joseph Robinson Collection, 1959, no. 10

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung Sir Joseph Robinson, 1840-1929: Werke europaischer Malerei vom 15. bis 19. Jahrhundert, 17 August - 16 September 1962, no. 10, reproduced fig. 5

Venice, Museo del Settecento Veneziano Ca' Rezzonico; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696- 1996, 6 September - 15 December 1996; 24 January - 27 April 1997, no. 30

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in paint, bottom center: JOA. BATTA: TIEPOLUS.F. / ...1735

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Catalogue raisonnéPedrocco, Filippo. Tiepolo: The Complete Paintings. New York: Rizzoli, 2002.

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