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Holy Family

Maker

(artist)
1696-1770

Title

Holy Family

Date of Production

1755-1762

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 27.8 cm
Width: 19.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1935.SC.250

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1935

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

mounted by the artist in an album and given to his son, Giuseppe Tiepolo, friar in the convent of the Somaschi, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1762; kept in convent of the Somaschi until its suppression, 1810; acquired from there by Count Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834); acquired from him in an exchange by Antonio Canova (1754-1822); by descent to Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori-Canova (1775-1858); purchased from him by Francesco Pesaro, Venice; purchased from him by Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire (1803-1884),1842; by descent to Colonel Alfred Capel Cure, Blake Hall, Ongar, Essex, (1826-1896); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 29 April 1885, lot 1024 (in the 'Heads and Holy Figures' album); purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); possibly acquired in Dublin by William Fagg, Sydenham; possibly B.T. Batsford (London)'s sale, Christie's (London), 14 July 1914, part of lot 49 (three volumes); purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); Savile Gallery, May 1928; purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947), 1928; Courtauld Gift 1935

Exhibition History

All Spirit and Fire - Oil Sketches by Tiepolo, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 23/02/2006-29/05/2006

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970 ...More

Goya and his Times, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1963-64

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Drawings by G.B. Tiepolo, Savile Gallery, London, 1928 ...Less

Literature

Whistler, Catherine, Venice and Drawing 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collecting, New Haven and London 2017
p.xxiv
illus. p. 14

Farr, Dennis, 100 Masterpieces from the Courtauld Collections, London: Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1987
p. 172
illus. p. 173

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 53 ...More

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 91
illus. p. 23

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 250

Drawings by G.B. Tiepolo, Savile Gallery, London, 1928
cat. no. 4
no. 4 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: three hats (see sketch in file, of a type similar to Heawood 2599 - Padua 1694).

Inscription: Verso: lower left corner, black chalk: illegible – could just be scribbles?

Collector's mark: none.

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