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Giambattista Tiepolo

Saint Francis of Paola holding a rosary, book and staff

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Venice 1696–1770 Madrid

Saint Francis of Paola holding a rosary, book and staff


inscribed upper right: CHARITAS

oil on canvas

unframed: 46.1 x 38.2 cm.; 18⅛ x 15 in.

framed: 61.8 x 53.9 cm.; 24⅜ x 21¼ in.

Private collection, Vienna, before 1902;

Adele Fischel (1865–1943), Vienna, by circa 1918 (as Domenico Tiepolo);

Acquired by Galerie Otto Fröhlich, November 1938;

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 18 March 1941, lot 111 (where consigned by Galerie Sanct Lucas on behalf of the liquidator of Galerie Otto Fröhlich, under the authority of Kommerziabat Otto Faltis);

European private collector;

By whom anonymously sold (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Sotheby's, 12 July 2001, lot 73;

Where acquired by a private collector, New York;

By whom anonymously sold (‘Property from a Distinguished Private Collection’), New York, Sotheby's, 22 May 2019, lot 14;

Thereafter restituted to the heirs of Otto and Lily Fröhlich, 2024.


The painting is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement with the heirs of Otto and Lily Fröhlich. The painting is also sold pursuant to a settlement agreement with the heirs of Adele Fischel.

A. Morassi, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G.B. Tiepolo, London 1962, p. 31, no. 172, reproduced (as whereabouts unknown).