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Portrait of a Woman

1762–1770

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

(Italian, 1727–1804)

Italy, 18th century

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 60.4 x 48.6 cm (23 3/4 x 19 1/8 in.)

Gift of Harry D. Kendrick 1952.541

Location

not on view

Description

This portrait was made in Spain, where the artist (the son of Giambattista Tiepolo, the great Venetian fresco painter) lived between 1762 and 1770.

Provenance
Richard Owen, died 1951 (Paris, France), by 1925;
Thomas Agnew & Sons (London, England), sold to Henry C. Dalton, 1928.
Henry C. Dalton, Cleveland, by inheritance to his nephew, Harry D. Kendrick;
Harry D. Kendrick, Cleveland, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 145 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 145 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 145 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 432; Mentioned: p. 433-434
Exhibition history

CMA, 1928: "Representative Art through the Ages (no catalogue)."

CMA, 1934: "Art of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries" (no catalogue).

CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of CMA," cat. no. 64.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938: "Tiepolo and His Contemporaries," cat. no. 19, repr. (as Giambattista Tiepolo).

Art Institute of Chicago, 1938: "Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by the Two Tiepolos, Giambattista and Giandomenico," cat. no. 37, illus.

Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1956: "De Tiepolo à Goya," cat. no. 58 (as Giambattista).

Birmingham (Alabama) Museum of Art, 1978: "The Tiepolos, Painters to Princes and Prelates," cat. no. 94, p. 104, illus. p. 105. Springfield (Mass.) Museum of Fine Arts, 1978.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art (9/9/2010 - 1/2/2011): "The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art",cat. no. 31, p. 100.

Tiepolo and His Contemporaries. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 14-April 24, 1938).

The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (organizer) (January 8-February 19, 1978); Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, OH, Springfield, OH (March 19-May 7, 1978).

The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK (organizer) (September 9, 2010-January 2, 2011).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1952.541