The Holy Family

1754/1762

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1696 - 1770

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Library of the monastery of the Padri Somaschi, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice. Count Leopoldo Cicognara. Antonio Canova; by descent to his half-brother, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori-Canova. Francesco Pesaro, Venice, until 1842; Col. Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire (1803 - 1884) (see Lugt 444); by descent to his brother-in-law, Col. Alfred Capel Cure, Blake Hall, Essex. (sale, Sotheby's London, 29 April 1885, no. 1024); Parsons. William Fagg, Sydenham. Messrs. B. T. Batsford, London. (sale, Christie's London, 14 July 1914, lot 49); (E. Parsons & Sons, London) (see Lugt supplement, 2881). (Savile Gallery, London). Franz Koenigs, Haarlem (1881 - 1941) (Lugt 1023a). D. G. van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Dr. Max J. Friedländer, Amsterdam; (his sale, Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 17 March 1959, no. 29). Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich; Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts, Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, 218, no. 100 (entry by Maria Santifaller).

1979

  • Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 54, no. 87.

1995

  • Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 41.

1996

  • Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 41.

2011

  • Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 50.

Bibliography

1978

  • Ebertshäuser, Heidi. "Die Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz." Graphische Kunst 10 (1978): 7, 8.

1983

  • Byam Shaw, James. The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection. 3 vols. Paris, 1983, 1: 290, note 4 (under no. 278).

Wikidata ID

Q64572383

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