Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery1752

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Italy, Venice, 1727-1804
Title: Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
Date Made: 1752
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 5/8 × 41 1/4 in. (72.71 × 104.78 cm) Frame: 40 × 52 × 4 in. (101.6 × 132.08 × 10.16 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation in honor of the museum's 40th anniversary
Accession Number: M.2005.119
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: Dr. Forcke, Hildesheim, in 1868 to; Wilhelm Laporte, Linden, Germany; Laporte family by descent, in 1929 to; Wilhelm Opperman. Polignac collection, Paris. (Sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 23 May 2001, lot 49, bought in). [Blondeau Bréton, Paris, sold 2005 to]; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 1, Italian Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.