Keywords: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Allegory of the Immaculate Conception - NGI.353.jpg Artwork Creator Giovanni Battista Tiepolo mld ~ 1769 oil paper canvas Size cm 58 7 45 Institution National Gallery of Ireland accession number NGI 353 object history Probably brought back from Madrid to Venice by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo after his father's death in 1770 Appeared on Venetian market after his own death in 1804 Purchased by Duke of Portland in Venice c 1870-1890 Purchased Christie's London 13 July 1891 G A F Cavendish Bentick sale lot 771 exhibition history credit line mld Considered the most iconographically complex of Tiepolo's portrayals of the Immaculate Conception Note the triangular halo signifying the Trinity Christiansen Keith ed Giambattista Tiepolo 1696 “1770 https //archive org/stream/GiambattistaTiepolo16961770 page/n257/mode/2up Exhibition catalogue - No 40b p 247 n 11 New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 1996 http //onlinecollection nationalgallery ie/view/objects/asitem/items null 7668 t state flow f1d8dba8-0a17-43c5-81ab-3ab94a2d4e10 National Gallery of Ireland Info http //storyscope7test ssl co uk/objects/2448 National Gallery of Ireland image <gallery> File The Immaculate Conception by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo from Prado in Google Earth jpg Prado Museum </gallery> PD-old-auto 1770 PD-US Paintings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in the National Gallery of Ireland |