LACMA

ShopMembershipMyLACMATickets
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@lacma.org
(323) 857-6000
Sign up to receive emails
Subscribe
© Museum Associates 2026
  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2026
Collections

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery1752

Not on view
Oil painting of a large group of figures around a kneeling central figure in red and blue robes, set beneath an ornate stone arch with pale blue sky beyond
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
  • "2005-2006 Selected Acquisitions." LACMA Insider 4, no.1 (2006): 4-7.

  • Eder, Christian. "Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo und die Frühaufklärung in Würzburg." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 78 (2017): 225-263.
  • 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.