Madonna and Child Appearing to Saint Philip Neri

probably 1725 or after

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Artist, Italian, 1683 - 1754

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 112.4 x 63.5 cm (44 1/4 x 25 in.)
    framed: 135.9 x 87.6 x 9.5 cm (53 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1961.9.82

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection, Rome, by 1941.[1] (Antiquaria, Rome) on consignment January 1950 to (Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles);[2] by whom sold 12 May 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] See Morandotti, Alessandro, Mostra di pittura veneziana del settecento, exh. cat. Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Venice, 1941.
[2] According to Loewi records. The Antiquaria Gallery in Rome was run by Alessandro Morandotti, who had been director of the Loewi gallery in Venice and took over operations of it in 1939 when the Loewi family left Italy. Morandotti moved the business to Rome and renamed it Antiquaria, and eventually acquired the businessfrom Loewi in 1950.
[3] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1345.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • Mostra di pittura veneziana del settecento, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome, 1941, no. 10, repro. (cat. by Alessandro Morandotti).

1950

  • The Samuel H. Kress Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1953, no. 24 (cat. by William Suida in Philadelphia Museum Bulletin 46/277, 1950).

1994

  • The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice, 1994-1995, no. 73, repro. (shown only in London and Washington).

2009

  • Venice in Canaletto's Age, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 2009-2010, no catalogue.

2010

  • La Serenissima : Eighteenth-Ventury Venetian Art from North American Collections, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2010-2011, no. 13, repro.

Bibliography

1942

  • Arslan, Edoardo. "Nota breve sul Piazzetta." Le Arti 5 (1942): 206, n., as contemporary copy.

  • Pallucchini, Rodolfo. "Unbekannte Werke Piazzettas." Pantheon 29 (1942): 49, repro.

1943

  • Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. 2nd ed. Rome, 1943: 10.

1956

  • Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Piazzetta. Milan, 1956: 18, 20, figs. 24, 25, 27.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 246, repro.

1963

  • Haskell, Francis. Patrons and Painters. London, 1963: 273 (2nd ed., 1985).

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 101.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 89, repro.

1969

  • Zampetti, Pietro. Dal Ricci al Tiepolo. Exh. cat. Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1969: 128.

1972

  • Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 163.

1973

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 137-138, fig. 270.

1975

  • Residenzgalerie mit Sammlung Czernin und Sammlung Schönborn-Buchheim. Salzburg, 1975: 87 (2nd ed., 1980).

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 264, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:365-366; 2:pl. 264.

1981

  • Jones, Leslie. "The Paintings of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta." 3 vols. Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1981: 2:223-224, no. 73; figs. 27-30, as copy finished by Piazzetta.

1982

  • Mariuz, Adriano, with Rodolfo Pallucchini. L'opera completa del Piazzetta. Milan, 1982: 85, no. 43, repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 304, repro.

1992

  • Knox, George. Giambattista Piazzetta 1682-1754. Oxford, 1992: 102, fig. 80.

1994

  • The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: 153, 476, cat. 73, color repro.

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: 207-212, repro. 209.

Wikidata ID

Q20177810

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