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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.162.2
People
Attributed to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1696 - 1770 Madrid, Spain)
Title
Three Chinoiseries
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1767
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294565

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, watercolor, brown and black ink on cream laid paper, mounted overall to laid paper
Dimensions
6 x 19.2 cm (2 3/8 x 7 9/16 in.)
mount: 9 x 22 cm (3 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Recto of the three drawings' mounts, black ink, lower left: Tiepolo del.; lower right: 1767

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Agnes Mongan, Gift to HUAM, 1991.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.162.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • George Knox, Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770-1970; Drawings, Mainly from American Collections, by Giambattista Tiepolo and the Members of His Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1970), cat. no. 78, repr.
  • Terisio Pignatti, Venetian Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1974), cat. no. 85, repr.
  • The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates, exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL, 1978), cat. no. 72, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770-1970, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1970 - 05/03/1970
  • Venetian Drawings from American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 09/21/1974 - 11/24/1974; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 12/01/1974 - 02/28/1975; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 03/01/1975 - 04/20/1975
  • The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 01/08/1978 - 02/19/1978; Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Springfield, 03/19/1978 - 05/07/1978

Verification Level

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