The Immaculate Conception (Joachim en Anna receiving the Virgin Mary from God the Father), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1757 - c. 1759

Identification

Title(s)

The Immaculate Conception (Joachim en Anna receiving the Virgin Mary from God the Father)
The Virgin Mary presented to Sts Joachim and Anna by God the Father

Object type

Object number

SK-A-3985

Inscriptions / marks

inscription: ‘Modello originale d[i Ti]epolo per la tavola dell'altare nel Convento di S. Chiara in Cividale. Comprato della galeria Barlese Tiepolo per lire sessantatre li 23 maggio 1808.’

Description

Het visioen van de heilige Anna (allegorie van de onbevlekte ontvangenis). De geknielde Anna ziet hoe Maria in een wolk door engelen naar de hemel wordt gedragen waar zij met uitgestrekte armen door Christus wordt opgewacht. Achter Anna knielt haar man Joachim met gevouwen handen. Voorstudie voor het 1759 gedateerde altaarstuk in de klooster van Santa Chiara in Cividale, tegenwoordig in het museum te Dresden.

Creation

Artist

painter: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Dating

c. 1757 - c. 1759

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

height 49 cm × width 26 cm

Subject

What

(immaculate) conception of Mary represented symbolically

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Inv.; collection Dr Hans Wilhelm Christian Tietje (1895-?), Amsterdam, 1926; from whom, fl. 40,000, to the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz, through the mediation of the dealer R. van Eyck, The Hague, 19 December 1942 (inv. no. 2615);{Schwarz 2004, p. 158, no. XXIV/40; MCCP website, file card no. 2982.} war recuperation, SNK, 18 June1946 (inv. no. NK 2352);{Provenance from 1924 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkart et al. 2006; Schwarz 2004, p. 158, no. XXIV/40.} on loan from the SNK to the museum, 1948 (inv. no. SK-C-1400); transferred to the museum, 1960

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Relations

Documentation

Herkomst gezocht : deelrapportage, dl. 4, p. 122-123
Italian Paintings from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in Dutch Public Collections, Bernard Jan Hendrik Aikema, Ewoud Mijnlieff, Mandy Sikkens, Gert Jan van der Sman, Bert Treffers
A complete catalogue of the paintings of G.B. Tiepolo including pictures by his pupils and followers wrongly attributed to him, Antonio Morassi, p. 1, cat.nr. afb. 68
Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p. 28

Persistent URL

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