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AT-00006227Holy Family with St. John and Two Angels
Provenance
Given by the artist in an album to the Library of the Somasco Convent at Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1762; Conte Leopoldo Cicognara (1767–1834), Venice; to Antonio Canova (1757–1822), Venice; to his half-brother, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori-Canova (1775–1858), Italy; sold to Francesco Pesaro (or Posaro), Venice; sold to Edward Cheney (1803–1848), Badger Hall, Shropshire, 1842 [The entire provenance is detailed by Edward Cheney. A copy of this text is reproduced in the London 1928 exh. cat.]; by descent to his nephew, Colonel Alfred Capel Cure (1826–1896), Blake Hall, Ongar, Essex, England; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Apr. 29, 1885, part of lot 1024, to E. Parsons and Sons, London. Savile Gallery, London, by 1928 [London 1928]. Sir Richard Owen (died 1951), Lancaster and London. F. A. Drey, London. Dr. (1898–1974) and Mrs. Francis Carl Springell, by 1954 [London 1954–55]; sold, Sotheby's, London, June 30, 1986, lot 79. Kate de Rothschild, London, and Galerie Didier Aaron, Paris, London and New York, by 1987 [London 1987]; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 1988 [Sotheby's, New York, Jan. 23, 2008, lot. 84 (sold, but exchanged by request of bidder for an unsold lot in the sale just after the auction); Sotheby's, London, July 8, 2009, lot 74 (unsold)]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.
Exhibition history
London, Saville Gallery, Tiepolo Exhibition, May 1928, cat. 3 (ill.). London, Royal Academy of Arts, European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, 1954–55, cat. 590, p. 162. Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell, July–Sept. 1965, cat. 64, p. 23. London, Kate de Rothschild, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, June 29–July 10, 1987, cat. 1 (ill.). New York, Didier Aaron, Inc., Master Drawings: 1550–1850, Oct. 19–Nov. 5, 1988, cat. 28, n.p. (ill.); traveled to London, Didier Aaron, Ltd., Nov. 28–Dec. 8, 1988. Gainesville, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Italian Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, July 12–Sept. 8, 1991, cat. 29, pp. 118–21 (ill.); traveled to Lawrence, Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Oct. 6–Nov. 17, 1991; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Dec. 14, 1991–Feb. 16, 1992; Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Aug. 15–Oct. 11, 1992; Cincinnati, The Taft Museum, Nov. 19, 1992–Jan. 10, 1993; and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Jan. 29–Mar. 21, 1993.
Publications
Sotheby's, The Jeffrey E. Horvitz Collection of Italian Drawings (New York: Sotheby's, 2008), lot. 84, p. 164 (ill.)
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo / Italian, 1696–1770
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown ink wash on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 25.8 × 20 cm (10 3/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawing
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
- Accession no.
- 2021.578
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