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Allegory of Plenty

Maker

(artist)
1696-1770

Title

Allegory of Plenty

Date of Production

c. 1740-1750

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.8 cm
Width: 14.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.555

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

probably 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; possibly acquired there by Count Bernardino Algarotti-Corniani; purchased from him by Edward Cheney, Badger Hall (1803-1885), in Venice, 31 May 1852; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 29 April 1885, probably part of lot 1024; 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; purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£7); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Mount (removed, in box of mounts from P&D), Verso: upper right corner, grey ink: “gs”; lower left, graphite: "11"; lower right, graphite: “2/4 + 5/2”.

Collector's mark: Mount (removed, in box of mounts from P&D), Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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