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San Giorgio in Alga, Venice, until 1806 or 1807.[1] Pivan collection, Venice, by 1934.[2] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence); purchased 1950 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1952 to NGA.

[1] Zanetti, Anton Maris, Della pittura veneziana e delle oper pubbliche de' veneziani maestri, Venice, 1771: 477 (reprinted Venice, 1972). The church and monastery were suppressed in 1806 and the works of art removed in 1807; Zorzi, Alvise, Venezia scomparsa, 2 vols., Venice, 1972: 2:405-406.

[2] According to Pallucchini, Rodolfo, "Il pittore Francesco Polazzo," Rivista di Venezia (1934): 341.

[3] According to Paintings and Sculptures from the Kress Collection, Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951, Washington, D.C., 1951: 148.

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Bibliography

1771
Zanetti, Anton Maria. Della pittura veneziana e delle oper pubbliche de' veneziani maestri. Venice, 1771: 477 (reprinted Venice, 1972).
1934
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. "Il pittore Francesco Polazzo." Rivista di Venezia 1934: 341, fig. 16, as by Francesco Polazzo.
1951
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 148, no. 64, repro., as by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.
1956
Mühlberger, Richard. The Bible in Art: The Old Testament. London, 1956: 230, pl. 88. (As by Polazzo.)
1956
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Piazzetta. Milan, 1956: 38, fig. 91, as by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.
1956
Pigler, Andor. Barockthemen. 3 vols. 1st ed., Budapest, 1956: 1:177, as by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, but suggests Angeli.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 245, repro., as by Giovanni Battista Piazetta.
1961
Seymour 1961 (Kress), 165, repro. pl. 159
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 101, as by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 89, repro., as by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.
1972
Fredericksen and Zeri 1972, 163, 647, as by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta or Francesco Polazzo.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 139, fig. 272, as by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.
1974
Pigler, Andor. Barockthemen. 3 vols. Revised ed. Budapest, 1974: 1:180, as by Francesco Polazzo.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 264, repro., as by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:366-367, II:pl. 265, as by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.
1981
Jones, Leslie. "The Paintings of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta." 3 vols. Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1981: 1:190-191; 2:238-240, no. R6.A; 3:fig. 137.
1982
Mariuz, Adriano, with Rodolfo Pallucchini. L'opera completa del Piazzetta. Milan, 1982: 129, no. A146, repro.
1982
Mollenhauer Hanstein, Mariana. Giuseppe Angeli und die Venezianische Malerei des Settecento. Ph.D. diss., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, 1982: 36-37, 77, 88, 128, 148, no. 128, fig. 13.
1983
Knox, George. Unpublished catalogue entry. NGA curatorial files.
1983
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. "Il Piazzetta e la sua scuola." In Giambattista Piazzetta, il suo tempo. la sua scuola. Exh. cat. Palazzo Loredan-Vendramin-Calergi, Venice, 1983: 36.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 344, no. 471, color repro., as by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 304, repro., as by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.
1992
Knox, George. Giambattista Piazzetta 1682-1754. Oxford, 1992: 215, fig. 156.
1996
De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 4-7, repro. 5.

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