Holy Family with St. John and Two Angels

Conte Leopoldo Cicognara (1767–1834), Venice

sold to Francesco Pesaro (or Posaro), Venice

to Antonio Canova (1757–1822), Venice

by descent to his nephew, Colonel Alfred Capel Cure (1826–1896), Blake Hall, Ongar, Essex, England

Given by the artist in an album to the Library of the Somasco Convent at Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1762

to his half-brother, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori-Canova (1775–1858), Italy

given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

Sotheby's, London, July 8, 2009, lot 74 (unsold)]

Sotheby's, The Jeffrey E. Horvitz Collection of Italian Drawings (New York: Sotheby's, 2008), lot. 84, p. 164 (ill.)

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)

London, Royal Academy of Arts, European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, 1954–55, cat. 590, p. 162.

London, Saville Gallery, Tiepolo Exhibition, May 1928, cat. 3 (ill.).

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.]

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.

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.

London, Kate de Rothschild, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, June 29–July 10, 1987, cat. 1 (ill.).

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]

Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell, July–Sept. 1965, cat. 64, p. 23.