The Battle of Imbros, 1717 (An Allegory of a Naval Victory)
Giovanni Raggi (Italian, Venetian, 1712–1792/94)

With M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., London, as attributed to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venetian, 1696–1770), before 1946 [1];
Their loan to Cincinnati Art Museum, 1947;
Gift of M. Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, as attributed to Luca Giordano (Italian, Neapolitan,1634–1705), to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, September 26, 1947.

[1] A letter from Harold Parsons dated January 24, 1946. Knoedler’s purchase date is not specified, just recalled as “many years ago.” Joslyn Art Museum, Object File.

Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770–1970, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 14–May 3, 1970.

Philip Gurney, “Master or Student: Many Works Hide Answers,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, February 2, 1961, 40.

Antonio Morassi, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G.B. Tiepolo (London: Phaidon Press, 1962), 37.

George Knox, Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770–1970 (Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum Harvard University, 1970), 222, (repro.).

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 172.

Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 58–60, (repro.).

Gian Alberto Dell’Acqua, I Pittori Bergamaschi: Dal Xiii Al Xix Secolo vol. 3 (Bergamo, Italy: Bolis, 1990), 65, (repro.).

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 106–07, (repro.).