Rinaldo and Armida in Her Garden by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
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Rinaldo and Armida in Her Garden

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1742–45

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Possibly one of four scenes from Tasso made for the 'gabinetto degli specchi' of the Palazzo Corner a San Polo, Venice [according to inventories and other documents discussed by Romanelli 1998]. Count Giovanni Serbelloni, Venice in 1838; by descent, until possibly 1886 [Molmenti 1911 and Knox 1978]. Giulio Cartier, Genoa by 1908 [Malaquzzi Valeri 1908]; Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, in 1912 [Ojetti 1912]; James Deering (d. 1925), Vizcaya, from 1913 [information sheet in curatorial file]; bequeathed,1925.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, June 1 – November 1, 1933, no. 157.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, June 1 – November 1, 1934, no. 335.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by the two Tiepolos, February 4 – March 6, 1938, no. 7.
  • London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, September 13 – December 14, 1994, no. 90; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, January 29 – April 23, 1995.
  • Venice, Ca' Rezzonico, Giambattista Tiepolo, September 5-December 15, 1996, cat. 17b; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 24 – April 27, 1997.

Literature

Published references

  • Pompeo Molmenti, G. B. Tiepolo: La sua Vita e le sue Opere (Milan, 1909), pp. 140-141, 145-147, 156, ill. (French trans. H. L. de Perera, Tiepolo, La vie et l’œuvre du peintre (1911), pp. 188-189, 308, nos. 186-189, pls. 186-88).
  • Ugo Ojetti, “Le quattro tele del Tiepolo trafugate”, Emporium 36 (July 1912): pp. 64-69, ill.
  • Camille Mauclair, “Exposition de Quelques Chefs-d’Oeuvre de G. B. Tiepolo,” in Dix Chefs-d’œuvre de G. B. Tiepolo exposés a la Galeries Ch. Sedelmeyer (Paris, 1912-3), pp. 5-34.
  • Helen Parker, ed., Arno Art Studies: A Course in Picture Appreciation, vol. 1 (Chicago, 1930), pp. 208, 211.
  • Michael Levey, “Review of Antonio Morassi: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G. B. Tiepolo,” The Art Bulletin 45 (1963), p. 294.
  • Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (1966), pp. 204-206.
  • Mercedes Precerutti Garberi, affreschi settecenteschi delle ville Venete (Milan, 1968), p. 360.
  • Aldo Rizzi, Le acqueforti dei Tiepolo (Milan, 1970), under no. 221. (English trans. Lucia Wildt, The Etchings of the Tiepolos: Complete Edition (1971), p. 414, under no. 225.)
  • Lina Christina Frerichs, “Mariette et les Eaux-Fortes des Tiepolo,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 78 (1971), pp. 246-247.
  • George Knox, Catalogue of the Tiepolo Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 1975), p. 80.
  • National Gallery of Canada, Tiepolo: etchings by the Tiepolos (Ottawa, 1976), pp. 66-67.
  • Roberto Longhi, Disegno della Pittura Italiana, vol. II (Florence, 1979), no. 223, ill.

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