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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Young Lady in a Tricorn Hat
K1537
2492
c. 1755/1760
oil on canvas
Painting
62.2 x 49.3 cm (24 1/2 x 19 7/16 in)
Luigi Pisa, Florence, by 1937; [1] (his sale, Circolo Artistico, Palazzetto del Da Ponte, Venice, 5-9 September 1938, no. 318, repro. as by Alessandro Longhi). Italico Brass, Venice. [2] (Schaeffer Galleries, New York), probably from 1947; sold 21 May 1948 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [3] gift 1952 to NGA.
[1] Catalogue de la Collection Pisa, preface by Ugo Ojetti, 2 vols., Milan, 1937: 1:114, no. 749, 2:124. A handwritten notation on the back of an old photograph (photographic archives, NGA), reads "Pisani Collection 1932." This information has not been independently corroborated.
[2] According to Alessandro Morandotti, Mostra di pittura veneziana del settecento, Exh. cat. Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Venice, 1941: 43 (listed as Alessandro Brass); Max Goering, "Tiepolo" in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig, 1907-1950: 33:154; and Antonio Morassi, Tiepolo, Bergamo, 1943: 28.
[3] Inventory card no. 1220 from the Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., confirms the sale of the picture in May of 1948; the ealiest date on the card is 11/28/1947. (Getty Research Institute, copy NGA curatorial files). The purchase from Schaeffer Galleries is also recorded in a typewritten notation, Kress records, NGA curatorial files.
[1] Catalogue de la Collection Pisa, preface by Ugo Ojetti, 2 vols., Milan, 1937: 1:114, no. 749, 2:124. A handwritten notation on the back of an old photograph (photographic archives, NGA), reads "Pisani Collection 1932." This information has not been independently corroborated.
[2] According to Alessandro Morandotti, Mostra di pittura veneziana del settecento, Exh. cat. Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Venice, 1941: 43 (listed as Alessandro Brass); Max Goering, "Tiepolo" in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig, 1907-1950: 33:154; and Antonio Morassi, Tiepolo, Bergamo, 1943: 28.
[3] Inventory card no. 1220 from the Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., confirms the sale of the picture in May of 1948; the ealiest date on the card is 11/28/1947. (Getty Research Institute, copy NGA curatorial files). The purchase from Schaeffer Galleries is also recorded in a typewritten notation, Kress records, NGA curatorial files.
1952.5.77
K1537
1156
