Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Juno and Luna

CultureItalian
Titles
  • Juno and Luna
Datec. 1735–1745
PlaceVenice, Italy
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions83 3/4 × 90 3/4 in. (212.7 × 230.5 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.1983.4
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
209 Nicandros Gallery
On view

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ProvenancePossibly painted for a palazzo in Venice; probably Francesco Artaria (1744–1808), Como and Venice; Villa Girola, near Blevio, Lake Como, Italy, from 1798; by descent, Domenico Artaria (1775–1842), inventoried in the Villa Girola, c. 1829; by descent, August Artaria (1807–1893), who upon the sale of the villa took it to Vienna, where it remained in the warehouse of the family firm, Artaria & Co., until rediscovered in 1900; [unknown dealer, Berlin]; [Galerie Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1911–1927]; [Galerie Van Diemen, Berlin-Amsterdam-New York, 1927]; private collection, New York, 1927 or 1928, probably William Robert Timken (1866–1949) and Lillian S. Timken (1881–1959), Croton-on-Hudson, New York, and following Mr. Timken’s death, New York City, until 1951; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, until 1980; [Christie’s, New York, June 5, 1980, lot 139]; [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1983.
Exhibition History“Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Baffer Foundation," The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, April 13–May 30, 1999; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Japan, June 5–July 11, 1999; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, July 17–August 22, 1999; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, August 27–October 3, 1999.

"Venetian Painting from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," Milwaukee Art Museum, September 14–November 25, 2001.

No Exhibition Title, Old Jail Art Center, Abeline, Texas, February 13–April 15, 2002; Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa, Texas, April 16–June 17, 2002.

"The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art," Oklahoma City Museum of Art, September 9, 2010–January 2, 2011.

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