The price remains confidential but the fresco is revealed in all its splendor.
Helped by the Société des Amis du Louvre to the tune of 1.5 million euros, the museum has just acquired by mutual agreement from a private collector the large painting by Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) that it was missing.
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Originally, around 1735, this
Juno in the midst of clouds
measuring 3.10 × 2.10 m adorned the ceiling of a Venetian palace.
After the extinction of the sponsoring family - that of the procurator Sagredo, the most important personality of the Serenissima after the doge - this fresco had been detached and reassembled on a wooden floor to be sold.
The work was mentioned in Paris in 1910, when, from Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart to Isaac de Camondo, people were crazy about the artist's productions.
In La Recherche, Proust also evokes the “
Tiepolo pink
” of an Odette Swann dressing gown…
The painting adorned the ceiling of a Venetian palace.
2020 Louvre Herve lewandowski
Under restoration, the Juno will soon be presented in the room of the great Italian paintings
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