The Madonna with the Seven Founders of the Servite Order

Provenance

Sold Christie’s, London, November 29, 1968, lot 63 to Angel. Sold Christie's, London, October 31, 1969, lot 200 to Colnaghi, London; sold by Colnaghi at Sotheby's, London, December 10, 1975, lot 52 [acc. to Georgina Duits of Colnaghi, letter of July 25, 2002, in curatorial file]. Julius Weitzner, London by 1977; sold to the Art Institute, 1977.

Publications

Giancarlo Sestieri, La Pittura del Settecento (Turin, 1988), pp. 52 (color ill.), 53. Beverly Louise Brown, Giambattista Tiepolo: Master of the Oil Sketch, exhib. cat. (Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, 1993), p. 60, fig. 32.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Quick Overview

Artist: Agostino Masucci (Italian, 1690–1768)
Date: c. 1728
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 174.8 × 115.7 cm (68 13/16 × 45 9/16 in.); Framed: 208.3 × 149.9 × 12.1 cm (82 × 59 × 4 3/4 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: 18th Century
Place: Italy
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by the Harold T. Martin Trust
Accession no.: 1977.485

Open-access museum record · AT-00001373