INTERNATIONAL ART |
Giambattista TIEPOLO
1696 Italy – Spain 1770
Marriage allegory
[Marriage allegory of the Cornaro family]
c.1737-1747 Venice, Veneto, Italy
Painting, oil on canvas
Primary Insc: not signed, not dated
343.0 h x 172.0 w cm
Purchased 1974
Accession No: NGA 74.377
Provenance:
- bought 1840s-70s? Edward Cheney (1803-1884), Badger Hall, Shropshire, England;
- by descent to his brother-in-law, Col. Alfred Capel Cure (1826-1896), Badger Hall;
- by descent to his nephew, Francis Capel Cure (1854-1933), Badger Hall;
- either by descent to his nephew, Nigel Capel Cure (b.1908) or part of estate sale;
- from where bought by Count Alessandro Contini (1878-1951 or 1955), Florence, 1935;
- by descent to his heirs;
- from whom bought through Shipley Corporation, New York, Paula Vial, New York, Chasseur Vert Etablissement, Vaduz, and Stanley Moss and Co. Inc., New York, by the Australian National Gallery, December 1974
PLEASE NOTE: this work is on long term loan at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne more information
Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2010
