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Follower of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The Child Moses Spurns the Crown of Pharaoh

Kress Catalogue NumberK5

Identifier3527

ArtistTiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770
Anonymous Artist

NationalityItalian

Datec. 1750-1755

Mediumoil on canvas

Type of ObjectPainting

Dimensions58.1 x 44.1 cm (22-7/8 x 17-3/8 in)

LocationMead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

ProvenanceMrs. Francis Vere Wright, Shelton Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress as Follower of Giovan Battista Tiepolo on 13 May 1929; gift 1939 to the National Gallery of Art; deaccessioned 1952 and returned to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; gift to Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, no. AC 1962.3.

Accession NumberAC 1962.3

Kress Number5

Legacy NGA Number117

2 Acquisitions

Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, May 13, 1929

Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, June 27, 1934

3 Distributions

Gift to National Gallery of Art, June 29, 1939