Giambattista Tiepolo
(Italy 1696–1770)
- Title
- St Roch
- Other titles:
- The Weary Pilgrim
Saint Rocco - Year
- 1730-1735
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
-
52.6 x 41.7cm board; 70.2 x 59.1 x 6.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of J.S. Heron 1912
- Accession number
- 1152
- Location
- Not on display
- Provenance (1)
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John Speir Heron (Australia, b.1872, d.1952), Castle Hill/Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Gift of J.S. Heron 1912. A loose notebook page from Heron's papers records the work as 'The weared pilgrim' by Salvator Rosa, lot 484, 13gns. The sale in question has not been identified. The Tiepolo was among Heron's effects aboard the Pericles when it was wrecked off Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia, in 1910. It was the only one of Heron's pictures to be recovered from the wreck and according to family tradition was washed up on a beach.
- Bibliography (4)
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Jon L Seydl, Giambattista Tiepolo: fifteen oil sketches, 2005, 42 (illus.). fig.5.2, as Saint Rocco. Illustrated in reference to cat.no.5a and 5b
Peter Tomory (United Kingdom) (Author), Robert Gaston (Author), European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1989, 95 (illus.). cat.no. 281
G. Piovene (Author), Anna Pallucchini (Author), L'Opera completa di Giambattista Tiepolo, Milan, 1968. cat.no. 77
Morassi (Author), Complete catalogue of paintings of G.B. Tiepolo, London, 1962. fig.162, as c 1730-35
