Polymnia, the Muse of Sacred Hymn Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice, 1696–1770)

1750

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

diam.: 28 in. (71.1 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Louis M. Rabinowitz

Accession Number

1947.17

Culture

Italian, Venetian

Period

18th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Palazzo Labia, Venice, possibly to 1898 [see note 1]. Leone Oreffice, Venice. With Julius Böhler, Munich, by 1904. Elkan Silbermann (1892–1952) and Abris Silbermann (1896–1968), Budapest; sold to an unknown buyer. Purchased by E.A. Silberman Galleries, Inc. (Elkan and Abris Silberman, dealers), New York, 1930 [see note 2]; sold to Louis M. Rabinowitz (1887–1957), Sands Point, Long Island, New York, 1937 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1946); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1947
Note 1: According to Momenti (1911), the painting was displayed in the dining room of the Palazzo Labia.
Note 2: Established in 1928, E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, was formed by brothers Elkan and Abris Silberman (born Silbermann) as a branch of their family’s galleries in Vienna and Budapest. A letter from Abris Silberman to Mrs. Alice Wolf, research assistant at the Gallery, notes that Polymnia, the Muse of Sacred Hymn, and Thalia and Melpomene, the Muses of Comedy and Tragedy (YUAG acc. 1947.18), also by Tiepolo, had been with his and his brother’s collection in Budapest for many years and that the paintings were sold there and then re-acquired in 1930 in the United States. It is unknown whether the paintings had originally formed part of the Silbermann’s personal collection or gallery stock in Budapest. (Abris Silberman, letter to Mrs. Alice Wolf, June 12, 1946, curatorial object file)
Bibliography
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 601
  • Charles Seymour, "Louis Mayer Rabinowitz," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 23 (September 1957), 13, fig. 7
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Subject

hymns

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