Giandomenico Tiepolo

Painted circa 1760 in Palazzo Porto, Vicenza, where they remained in situ until circa 1900;

Dr Eduard Simon (1864–1929), Berlin, from at least 1903 until 1929;

His posthumous sale, Berlin, Cassirer und Helbing, 11 October 1929, lots 13–18 (as Giambattista Tiepolo);

Where acquired by Axel Wenner-Gren (1881–1961), 32 Quai de Passy, Paris and later Stockholm;

By whose Estate sold (‘The Property of the Estate of the late Dr Axel Wenner-Gren’), London, Sotheby’s, 24 March 1965, lot 37 (as Giambattista in collaboration with Giandomenico Tiepolo), for £70,000;

With the Hallsborough Gallery, London, 1966 (as a collaboration between Giambattista and Giandomenico);

Acquired from the above by Dr Gustav Rau (1922–2002);

By whom bequeathed to UNICEF;

By whom sold (‘Property from the Gustav Rau Collection to be sold to benefit the German Committee for Unicef’), London, Sotheby’s, 3 July 2013, lot 42, for £2,800,000;

Acquired by private treaty through Sotheby’s in 2016 for the present collection.

F. Vendramin Mosca, Descrizione di Vicenza, 1779, vol. II, p. 86 (as ‘Tiepoletto’);

P. Molmenti, G.B. Tiepolo, la sua vita e le sue opere, Milan 1909, pp. 271–72, reproduced pp. 269–70 (as Giambattista);

E. Sack, Giambattista und Domenico Tiepolo, Hamburg 1910, p. 183, nos 294–99 (as Giambattista);

M. Friedländer, Sammlung Dr. Eduard Simon, Gemälde, Berlin 1929, pp. 42–52, reproduced pls XV–XX (as Giambattista);

A. Scharf, ‘Das Tiepolo-Zimmer des Palazzo Porto in Vicenza’, in Der Cicerone, vol. XXI, 1929, pp. 457–62, reproduced;

M. Goering, ‘Tiepolo’, in Thieme–Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon, Leipzig 1939, vol. XXXIII, p. 152 (as Giambattista and workshop); 

C. Vigni, Disegni del Tiepolo, Padua 1942, p. 65, under no. 195 (as Giandomenico, datable 1755–60);

G. Vigni, ‘Note su Giambattista e Giandomenico Tiepolo’, in Emporium, July 1943, p. 14 and n. 2 (as Giandomenico, possibly on Giambattista’s design, and dated 1760);

A. Morassi, A complete catalogue of the paintings of G.B. Tiepolo, London 1962, pp. 48–49 (as Giambattista with collaboration from his son Giandomenico);

A. Morassi, ‘Giandomenico Tiepolo’, in Enciclopedia Universale dell’Arte, Venice and Rome 1965, ad vocem;

Exhibition of Six Tiepolo Frescoes from the Palazzo Porto, Vicenza, exh. cat., London 1966 (as a collaboration between father and son, datable 1757);

K. Roberts, ‘Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 108, no. 756, February 1966, p. 102 (without specifying which Tiepolo is the author);

B. Nicolson, ‘Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 108, no. 756, March 1966, p. 155, reproduced figs 55 and 56 (without specifying which Tiepolo is the author);

A. Noach, Tiepolo Frescoes from the Palazzo Porto, Vicenza, exh. booklet, place unknown 1967 (as Giambattista);

A. Pallucchini, L’opera completa di Giambattista Tiepolo, Milan 1968, pp. 127–28, no. 261B (as a collaboration between father and son);

A. Mariuz, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Venice 1971, p. 122, reproduced figs 140–45 (as Giandomenico);

E. Forssman, Il Palazzo da Porto Festa di Vicenza, Corpus Palladianum XVIII, Vicenza 1973, pp. 65–66, reproduced figs 74–79;

G. Knox, ‘Primi Pensieri by Domenico Tiepolo and a New Painting’, in Master Paintings, XVII, I, 1979, pp. 32–33, under nos I and J, only Ippolito Porto reproduced (as Giandomenico);

G. Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings, New York 1980, vol. I, p. 323, no. P.317 (as Giandomenico);

R. Menegozzo, Nobili e Tiepolo a Vicenza. L'artista e i suoi committenti, Vicenza 1990, pp. 119–26, all reproduced (as Giandomenico);

B.L. Brown (ed.), Giambattista Tiepolo, Master of the oil sketch, exh. cat., Milan 1993, pp. 279–80, under no. 44 and nn. 6 and 7 (as Giandomenico); 

M. Gemin and F. Pedrocco, Giambattista Tiepolo, I dipinti, Opera completa, Venice 1993, p. 476, under no. 501 (as Giandomenico);

F. Pedrocco, Tiepolo, The Complete Paintings, New York 2002, p. 303, under no. 269 (as Giandomenico);

J. Sliwka et al. in Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, exh. cat., London and Düsseldorf 2017, pp. 123–24 and 240.

Stockholm, National Museum, Aldre Italiensk Konst, 1944, nos 216–21 (as Giambattista);

Leeds, Temple Newsam House, 1967–68 (as Giambattista);

London, The National Gallery and Düsseldorf, Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, 30 October 2017 – 18 February 2018 and 22 March – 15 July 2018, n.n. (as Giandomenico Tiepolo; one from the series of six: Jacopo Porto appointed Governor of Vicenza).