Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The World Pays Homage to Spain
1762181 x 104.5 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 474
Provenance
Possibly by inheritance from the artist to a niece who married Pagliano, perhaps the painter Eleuterio Pagliano (1826-1903)
possibly purchased in Venice by Edward Cheney (1803-1884), London, after 1860 at Badger Hall, Shropshire
possibly by inheritance to his brother-in-law, Colonel Alfred Capel-Cure (1826-1896)
by inheritance to his nephew, Francis Capel-Cure (1854-1933), Badger Hall, Shropshire
with Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence
purchased 26 June 1935 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1943 to NGA
Other works by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Abraham and the Three Angels
Allegory of the Immaculate Conception and of Redemption
Queen Zenobia before Emperor Aurelianus
The Death of Hyacinthus