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A Vision of the Trinity Appearing to Pope St Clement (© National Gallery, London)
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© National Gallery, London

A Vision of the Trinity Appearing to Pope St Clement

Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696 - 1770)

Location: National Gallery

Date: circa 1735 - 1739

Materials: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 71 x 56 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £1,800 (Total: £12,500)

Vendor: Julius Weitzner

Review number: 1860 (1957)

Provenance:
Julius Weitzner, New York

Description:
A highly finished preparatory modello for an altarpiece painted for Schloss Nymphenburg, and now in the Alte Pinokothek, Munich. Depicts a vision of the Trinity to a Pope with cherubs, most probably St Clement. Previously unrecorded, presumed lost.

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