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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Saint Roch Carried to Heaven by Angels, c. 1735/1745

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Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Howard Sturges

Accession Number

1956.9.16

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

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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

Bacchi, Victor
Kleinberger Gallery
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.
Sturges, Howard
Ward, Thomas Humphrey

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: Art of Italy, Miami Art Center, 1969, no cat.

1969: Inaugural Exhibition: European Paintings, The Art Museum, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1969-1970, 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.

Technical Summary

The support is a medium-weight, plain-weave fabric with a very open, uneven weave. The ground is a moderately thin, dark red layer. The paint was applied fluidly in moderately thick layers overall and the brushwork is evident throughout. The shadows are painted more thinly, allowing the ground to show through. The dark outlines were applied last.

Remnants of the tacking margins are visible as is modest cusping, indicating that the original dimensions have not been altered. The quilted appearance of the surface is the result of the canvas weave having been accentuated during a lining prior to acquisition in 1956. Numerous losses and areas of abrasion are scattered throughout, but are concentrated at the right. Discolored varnish was removed and the painting was restored by Marie von Möller in 1989-1990.

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.

1979: 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.

1993: 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.