A Vision of the Trinity Appearing to Pope St Clement

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696 - 1770)

National Gallery

circa 1735 - 1739

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.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 71 x 56 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £1800 ( Total: £12,500)
• ArtFunded in: 1957
• Vendor: Julius Weitzner

Provenance

Julius Weitzner, New York

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