File:Tiepolo Vercellae.jpg

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: The Battle of Vercellae  wikidata:Q19911502 reasonator:Q19911502
Artist
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo  (1696–1770)  wikidata:Q186202 q:it:Giambattista Tiepolo
 
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Alternative names
Gianbattista, Giambattista Tiepolo
Description Italian painter and engraver
Date of birth/death 5 March 1696 Edit this at Wikidata 27 March 1770 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Venice Madrid
Work location
Udine, Venice, Veneto, Würzburg, Madrid
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q186202
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Title
The Battle of Vercellae Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"The Battle of Vercellae Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"The Battle of Vercellae Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lit,"La battaglia di Zama"
Part of Ca' Dolfin Tiepolos Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Depiction of the Battle of Vercellae. Oil on canvas, Irregular painted surface, 162 x 148 3/8 in. (411.5 x 376.9 cm)
Date 1725–29
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 411.5 cm (13.5 ft) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 376.9 cm (12.3 ft) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+411.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+376.9U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
65.183.3 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation Venice
Object history

1726: commissioned by Daniele III Giovanni Dolfin and Daniele IV Gerolamo Dolfin, Venice
1798: inherited by Cecilia Dolfin Lippomano, Venice from Daniele I Andrea Dolfin
1854: inherited by Giovanni Querini Stampalia, Venice from Gasparo Lippomano
1869: bequeathed to Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice by Giovanni Querini Stampalia
1871: purchased by Michelangelo Guggenheim, Venice
1872: purchased by Eduard von Miller zu Aichholz, Vienna
1919: purchased by Camillo Catiglioni, Vienna
1935: acquired by Stefan Mendl, Zürich
1935: transferred to Mendl Estate, Saranac Lake from Stefan Mendl

1965: purchased by Metropolitan Museum of Art from Mendl Estate, Saranac Lake
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Source/Photographer Metropolitan Museum of Art


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