Saint Roch Carried to Heaven by Angels
c. 1735/1745
Artist, Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 41.4 x 33.8 cm (16 5/16 x 13 5/16 in.)
framed: 60.9 x 53 x 7.9 cm (24 x 20 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1956.9.16
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Thomas Humphrey Ward [1845-1926], London).[1] (Kleinberger Galleries, New York), by 1932.[2] (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 3 December 1942, no. 34); purchased by Victor Bacchi.[3] Howard Sturges [d. 1955], Providence, Rhode Island; bequest 1956 to NGA.
[1] "[F]rom the collection of Mr. Humphrey Ward," according to handwritten notes by W. R. Valentiner, dated May 1932, on the back of an old photograph (NGA curatorial files). The painting does not appear in any of the sales at Christie, Manson and Woods, London, which, according to Lugt, included paintings owned by Ward (20 June 1913, Lugt 72986; 28 February 1919, Lugt 78563; 14 March 1919, Lugt 78618; 19 November 1920, Lugt 81216). Ward's name does not appear on the catalogues. Martha Hepworth of the Getty Provenance Index reported that Ward was a sometime dealer who sold to Agnew's at the turn of the century and to the National Gallery, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (letter of 15 March 1993, NGA curatorial files).
[2] According to the College Art Association exhibition catalogue of 1932 and the Springfield Museum catalogue of 1933.
[3] According to a marginal notation in the copy of the catalogue held by the Frick Art Reference Library. The sale included works from several collections and the catalogue does not list the sellers of individual lots.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1932
Italian Baroque Painting and Drawing. XVI, XVII, XVIII Centuries, assembled by the College Art Association, Kleinberger Galleries, New York, 1932, cat. unpaginated and unnumbered.
1933
Opening Exhibition in Honor of James Philip and Julia Emma Gray, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1933, no. 89.
1967
The Art of Venice: An Exhibition of Five Works of Venetian Masters on extended loan from The Lending Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Tampa Bay Art Center, University of Tampa, Florida, 1967-1969, p. 7, repro.
1969
Inaugural Exhibition: European Paintings, The Art Museum, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1969-1970, no cat.
Art of Italy, Miami Art Center, 1969, no cat.
1978
The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1978, no. 16.
2023
Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023 - 2024, no cat.
Bibliography
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 127, as The Apotheosis of a Saint.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 113, repro., as The Apotheosis of a Saint.
1971
Maruiuz, Adriano. Giandomenico Tiepolo. Venice, 1971: 114, as by Giandomenico Tiepolo.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 198.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 338, repro., as The Apotheosis of a Saint.
1979
Hannegan, Barry. "A Tiepolo Exhibition and a Newly Discovered Work By Giambattista." Arte Veneta 33 (1979): 201, repro.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:453-454; 2:pl. 321.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 390, repro., as The Apotheosis of a Saint.
1993
Brown, Beverly Louise. Giambattista Tiepolo: Master of the Oil Sketch. Exh. cat. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. Milan and New York, 1993: 206-208, under no. 22, repro.
Gemin, Massimo, and Filippo Pedrocco. Giambattista Tiepolo. Venice, 1993: 475, no. 499, 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: 297-301, color repro. 299.
2002
Pedrocco, Filippo. Giambattista Tiepolo. Milan, 2002: no. 267, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20177893