id: 150955 accession number: 1982.36 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.36 updated: 2019-08-08 08:00:20.912000 Saints Presenting a Devout Woman to the Virgin and Child, 1720s. Giovanni Battista Pittoni (Italian, 1687-1767). Oil on canvas; framed: 185 x 149 x 6.5 cm (72 13/16 x 58 11/16 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 172 x 135.5 cm (67 11/16 x 53 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1982.36 title: Saints Presenting a Devout Woman to the Virgin and Child title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1720s creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1729 current location: 217 Italian Baroque creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Giovanni Battista Pittoni (Italian, 1687-1767) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 185 x 149 x 6.5 cm (72 13/16 x 58 11/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 172 x 135.5 cm (67 11/16 x 53 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1982 opening date: 1983-01-05T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983). title: The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art opening date: 2010-09-09T00:00:00 The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art. Oklahoma City Museum of Art (organizer) (September 9, 2010-January 2, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1982- footnotes: citations: (Newhouse Galleries, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: Until 1982 footnotes: citations: * George, Hardy. La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art from North American Collections. Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2010. page number: url: Baron André Descamps, Brussels, possibly consigned to Newhouse Galleries date: Possibly 1941-1982 footnotes: citations: * George, Hardy. La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art from North American Collections. Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2010. page number: url: (Galerie Fievez, Brussels, sale, June 23-24, 1941, no. 232 date: 1941 footnotes: * This auction was organized by the Belgian royal family to benefit l’Oeuvre Nationale de Service Social aux Familles de Militaires. The catalogue’s preface, written by Princess Jean de Mérode, indicates that the objects in the auction were donated by various collectors, connoisseurs, and philanthropists, although these individuals are not identified in the catalogue. citations: * George, Hardy. La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art from North American Collections. Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2010. page number: url: (Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, Broerman sale, March 21, 1927, lot 24, as Giambattista Tiepolo) date: 1927 footnotes: citations: * George, Hardy. La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art from North American Collections. Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2010. page number: url: * Broerman, Eug. Catalogue de la collection Eugène Broerman: tableaux anciens detout premier ordre, dessins et meubles anciens, tapis précieux : la vente publique en aura lieu, par le ministère de maître E. Denayer, huissier, 19, rue Ernest-Allard, à Bruxelles le lundi 21 mars 1927, à 2 heures dans les salles de la Galerie Georges Giroux. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1927. page number: url: * Galerie Fievez. Tableaux anciens et modernes, sculptures, mobiliers, argenteries, bijoux; verres gravés, antiquités, dessins, gravures, livres. Bruxelles: Galerie Fievez, 1941. page number: url: Eugene Broerman [1860-1930], Brussels, consigned to Galerie Georges Giroux date: Possibly 1924-1927 footnotes: citations: * George, Hardy. La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art from North American Collections. Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2010. page number: url: * Broerman, Eug. Catalogue de la collection Eugène Broerman: tableaux anciens detout premier ordre, dessins et meubles anciens, tapis précieux : la vente publique en aura lieu, par le ministère de maître E. Denayer, huissier, 19, rue Ernest-Allard, à Bruxelles le lundi 21 mars 1927, à 2 heures dans les salles de la Galerie Georges Giroux. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1927. page number: url: * Galerie Fievez. Tableaux anciens et modernes, sculptures, mobiliers, argenteries, bijoux; verres gravés, antiquités, dessins, gravures, livres. Bruxelles: Galerie Fievez, 1941. page number: url: Piccoli collection, Venice date: footnotes: * The Piccoli collection may be that of Giuseppe Piccoli, a collector who lived in Venice. The museum’s records originally listed Piccoli later in the provenance – in between the 1927 Galerie Georges Giroux sale and the 1941 Galerie Fievez sale. However, this chronology seems incorrect: If Giuseppe Piccoli is indeed the Piccoli in question, he could not have purchased it at the 1927 sale, since he had died in 1924. Furthermore, the geographical trajectory indicated by the museum’s original provenance (Belluno/Brussels/Venice/Brussels) is less logical than a provenance in which the painting went from Belluno to Venice, and then to Brussels for a longer, uninterrupted period of time. Verification of this new proposed provenance is ongoing.” citations: * George, Hardy. La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art from North American Collections. Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2010. page number: url: * Zava Boccazzi, Franca. Pittoni. Venezia: Alfieri, 1979 page number: url: Possibly a palace chapel, Belluno, Italy date: 1720s footnotes: * The individual who commissioned the painting is unknown, as is the original location of the chapel, which secondary sources have not identified, but have cited as since demolished. citations: * George, Hardy. La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art from North American Collections. Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2010. page number: url: * Galerie Fievez. Tableaux anciens et modernes, sculptures, mobiliers, argenteries, bijoux; verres gravés, antiquités, dessins, gravures, livres. Bruxelles: Galerie Fievez, 1941. page number: url: --- fun fact: digital description: A devout woman, shown at lower right, is presented by saints and an angel to the central Virgin and Child. In clockwise order from her is Saint Lucy, identified by the cauldron and sword at her feet; Saint Agnes, by the lamb; Saint Scholastica, by the dove she holds; and Saint Benedict, characterized by his crozier and Benedictine habit. Slightly below the central Madonna is Saint Veronica, whose head is covered. Behind Saint Veronica, Saint Anthony of Padua, wearing a Franciscan habit and holding a lily stalk, stands in a pose of adoration. Below Saint Anthony and next to the woman is an angel. The identity of the woman is uncertain, but she may be the painting's patron. Pittoni uses dramatic gestures and elegant drapery, while the soft treatment of light and rich colors reflect Pittoni's study of French Rococo art during his stay in France in 1720. In the crowded composition, Pittoni has emphasized the importance of the religious event. His experimentation with composition is evident in the legs of Saint Agnes's lamb; as the painting has aged, a third front leg that Pittoni had painted over has become visible. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Ruggeri, Ugo. Corpus graphicum Bergomense. Disegni inediti di collezioni bergamasche. Bergamo, Italy: Monumenta Bergomensia, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 29. (drawing) url: Zava Boccazzi, Franca. Pittoni. Venezia, Italy: Alfieri, 1979. page number: Reproduced: p. 187 url: Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1982." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXX, no. 1(January, 1983): 3-55. page number: Reproduced: cover, p. 14; Mentioned p. 50, no. 15 url: Martineau, Jane, and Andrew Robison. The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. page number: Reproduced: p. 140, p. 486 url: George, Hardy. La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art from North American Collections. Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2010. page number: Reproduced: p. 64, no. 14 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.36/1982.36_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.36/1982.36_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.36/1982.36_full.tif