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

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1943.4.39

Other works by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Queen Zenobia Addressing Her Soldiers
c. 1730

Allegory of the Planets and Continents
1752

Abraham and the Three Angels

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Rinaldo Enchanted by Armida
1742/45