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

Published References William Frost, and H. Reeve, eds., A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Water-colour Drawings, and Prints, in the Collection of the Late Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro, Esq., of Navar, at the Time of His Death Deposited in His House, No. 6 Hamilton Place, London, With Some Additional Paintings at Navar, London 1865, no. 234, p. 140 The London Times, 10 June 1878 Illustrated Catalogue of 300 Paintings by Old Masters...of the Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris 1898, no. 259, p. 284, reproduced p. 285 George Redford, Art Sales: A History of Sales of Pictures and Other Works of Art..., vol. I, London 1898, p. 276; vol. II, p. 254 Pompeo Molmenti, G.B. Tiepolo, la sua vitae le sue opere, Milan 1909, p. 260 Eduard Sack, Giambattista und Domenico Tiepolo, ihr Leben und ihre Werke, Hamburg 1910, no. 497, p. 219, reproduced fig. 212a Pompeo Molmenti, Tiepolo, la vie et l'oeuvre du peintre, Paris 1911, p. 198 (date incorrectly given as 1753) Ellis K. Waterhouse, The Robinson Collection, exhibition caalogue, London 1958, cat. no. 35, reproduced no. 10 L. Frolich-Bume, "Sammlung Sir Joseph Robinson," in Weltkunst, vol. 28, August 1958, pp. 4-5, reproduced p. 5 Horace Shipp, "Treasures of the Robinson Collection: Some Problems of Attribution," in Apollo, vol. LXVIII, no. 402, August 1958, p. 41, reproduced Alfred Scharf, "The Robinson Collection," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. C, no. 666, September 1958, pp. 300 and 303, reproduced p. 298, fig. 1 Gerald Reitlinger, The Economics of Taste: The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices, 1760-1960, London 1961, p. 461 Antonio Morassi, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G.B. Tiepolo, London 1962, pp. 19 and 43, reproduced fig. 81 Guido Piovene and Anna Palluchini, L'Opera completa di Giambattista Tiepolo, Milan 1968, no. 106, pp. 83, 90, 101, reproduced p. 101 Antoine Seilern, Italian Paintings and Drawings at 56 Princes Gate... vol. V, London 1969, under no. 341 J. Hayes, "Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson," in Petit Larousse de la peinture, vol. II, Paris 1979, p. 1579 Helen Braham, The Princes Gate Collection, exhibition catalogue, London 1981, no. 107, p. 73 Massimo Gemin and Filippo Pedrocco, Giambattista Tiepolo: I dipinti (opera completa), Venice 1993, pp. 86, 249 under no. 73, 312 no. 207 and 313 under no. 208, reproduced p. 312 Keith Christiansen, ed., Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696- 1996, exhibition catalogue, New York 1996, pp. 30, 205-08, cat. no. 30a, reproduced in color p. 206 Stephane Loire, "Rezensionen:... Massimo Gemin, Filippo Pedrocco, Giambattista Tiepolo. I dipinti..." in Kunstchronik, vol. L, January 1997, p. 30 Giuseppe Pavanello, "Tiepolo e la scultura: dalla copia all'inve nzione," in Giambattista Tiepolo nel terzo centenario de/la nascita, Padua 1998, vol. I, pp. 167 and 169, reproduced vol. II, p. 67, fig. 14 Filippo Pedrocco, Giambattista Tiepolo, Milan 2002, pp. 235-6, no. 116, reproduced p. 236 Michael Stevenson, Art & Aspirations: The Randlords of South Africa and Their Collections, Vlaeberg 2002, pp. 44-48, reproduced in color p. 47, fig. 11 Jon L. Seydl, Giambattista Tiepolo: Fifteen Oil Sketches, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles 2005, under no. 2, pp. 27 and 29, reproduced in color p. 29, fig. 2.1. 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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