Alexander the Great with the Women of Darius
- Date
- 1750/1753
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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118.2 x 98.5 cm
Framed: 58 3/4 x 50 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
149.2 x 127.6 x 13.3 cm
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
- Accession No.
- 25.207
- Provenance
- Bavarian private collection (see below);
Berlin, collection Cassirer (1922);
Munich, collection, W. Schnackenberg;
Munich, Julius Böhler (dealer);
Lucerne, Lucerne Fine Arts Co., Ltd. (dealer-1925), by whom purchased by the DIA.
Note: While it is known that our painting was at one point in a Bavarian private collection, it is not absolutely clear that our painting was in the Martinengo (private) coll. in Würzburg, as the Frankfurt painting once was. Although it was communicated to A. Derstine in Fall 2005 that our painting was indeed in that collection, by T. Kossatz of the Martin von Wagner Museum of the University, Würzburg, he based this on information in note 15 of an essay by C. Syre in 1996 (see pub. refs.); there Syre is referring in fact to the Frankfurt painting, not the DIA painting, as having been in the Martinengo coll.; her reference to Sack 1910, p. 188, as having been the first to recognize the painting as by Giandomenico also relates to the Frankfurt, not DIA, painting. That the Frankfurt painting was once in the Martinengo coll. was also mentioned by G. Knox, 1980 (see pub. refs.).
- Keywords
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canvas, oil, paint, history
Published References
Zeitschriften für Bildende Kunst , vol. 37, March 1922, p. 26, repr.
Burroughs, C.H. "¦Alexander and the Daughters of Darius¦ by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo," DIA Bulletin , vol. 7, no. 2, 1925, pp. 14-15, repr.
Venturi, A., , Studi dal vero attraverso le raccolte artistiche d'Europa , Milan, 1927, pp. 399-401, fig. 276 (as by G.B. Tiepolo).
Heil, W., Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 1930, cat. 222, repr. (as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo).
Scheyer, E., "Some Paintings by Tiepolo," DIA Bulletin , vol. 16, no. 2, 1936, pp. 34-37, esp. p. 25, fig. 1 (includes repr. of "Continence of Scipio",Stadel Museum, Frankfurt).
Scheyer, E., DIA, Baroque Painting, , Detroit, 1937, pp. 30-31, fig. 11 (as Giambattista Tiepolo).
Chicago, Art Institute, "Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico", 1938, cat. 15, pp. 23-24 (Entry by D. Catton Rich, as by G.B. Tiepolo).
Goering, M., "G. B. Tiepolo" in Thieme-Becker, Kunstler-Lexicon , p. 224.
Richardson, E.P. (ed.), DIA Catalogue of Paintings , (2nd ed.), Detroit, 1944, p. 132, no. 222 (as Giambattista Tiepolo).
Lorenzetti, G., ¦Il quaderno del Tiepolo al Museo Correr di Venezia¦, Venice, 1946, p. 76 (drawing related to painting, later cited in Knox)
DIA, Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture , Detroit, 1949, p. 83.
Venice, "Mostra del Tiepolo: catalogo ufficiale", 1951, cat. 56bis, p. 138, repr. (entry by G. Mariacher; in this catalogue Morassi attributes DIA picture to Gian Domenico).
Detroit, Institute of Arts--Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, "Venice 1700-1800", 1952, cat. 67.
DIA, Paintings and Sculpture Illustrated , Detroit, 1953, p. 81.
Morassi, "Una Mostra del Settecento Veneziano a Detroit", Arte Veneta , 1953, pp. 54-55.
DIA, Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Art , Detroit, 1960, p. 99 [2nd ed., 1966, p. 106, repr.only]
Precerutti-Garberi, M., "Asterischi sull'Attività di Domenico Tiepolo a Würzburg," Commentari , July-Dec. 1960, p. 281, and plate XCIV, fig. 16
Pallucchini, R., La pittura veneziana del Settecento , Venice, 1960, p. 257.
Morassi, A., A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G. B.Tiepolo , London, 1962, p. 10 (as by Gian Domenico), and pp. 12-13 (in entry on Frankfurt painting)
Morassi, A. "Giandomenico Tiepolo", in Enciclopedia Universale dell'Arte , Venice, 1965, p.
Pallucchini, A., ¦L'Opera Completa di Giovanni Battista Tiepolo¦, Milan, 1968, p. 136
Mariuz, A. Giandomenico Tiepolo , Venice, 1971, pp. 31-2, 118, pl. 35.
Fredericksen, B. and Zeri, F. Census of pre-19th century Italian paintings in North American Collections . Cambridge, MA, 1972, pp 196, 198 (as G.B. and G.D. Tiepolo collaboration).
Pigler, A., Barokthemen: Eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. Und 18. Jahrhunderts , 2nd ed., vol. 3, Budapest, 1974, pl. 294 (as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo).
Birmingham, Museum of Art--Springfield MA, Museum of Fine Arts, "The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates," 1978, cat. 88, color repr. p. 30 (as by Gian Domenico Tiepolo).
Knox, G., "Tiepolo Paintings at Birmingham," Burlington Magazine , vol. 120, n. 900, March 1978, p. 189 (review of Birmingham Tiepolo exhibition).
Knox, G., ¦Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings¦, 2 vols., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980, vol. I, p. 53
Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art-Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art-Ibaraka, Museum of Modern Art, "Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute Of Arts", 1989/1990, pp. 73, 213, cat. 41 (Japanese text, pp. 165-166), repr.
Gemin, M. and Pedrocco, F., ¦Giambattista Tiepolo; I Dipinti, Opera Completa¦, Venice, 1993, p. 505 (Catalogo delle opere attribuite), no. 14
Syre, C., "'Wahrhafte Kopie' des Vaters? G. Domenico Tiepolo und seine Gemälde der Würzburger Zeit", in exh. cat. ¦Der Himmel auf Erden. Tiepolo in Würzburg¦, Würzburg 1996 (published, Munich), vol. 2, pp. 80-90, esp. p. 81, ill. p. 82, and note 15 on p. 90 (where Martinengo coll. and Sack reference refer to Frankfurt painting)
Bissell, R. W., Derstine, A. and Miller, D., ¦Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts¦, London, 2005, pp. 9, 200-05 (cat. no. 64, entry by A. Derstine)
