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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1975.74
People
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1696 - 1770 Madrid, Spain)
Title
Crucifixion
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1726
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295798

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over graphite on white antique laid paper (turned cream-colored with age)
Dimensions
actual: 43.2 x 30.1 cm (17 x 11 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Marked at the lower right with a red cross. The significance of the red cross is unclear

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Piancastelli.
Edward Brandegee.
Giovanni Castano, Boston MA.
Agnes Mongan, Anonymous gift to HUAM, 1975.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
1975
Object Number
1975.74
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Terisio Pignatti, I disegni veneziani del settecento, Canova (Treviso, Italy, 1966), repr. pl. 57
  • 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. 5, repr.
  • The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates, exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL, 1978), cat. no.
  • Bernard Aikema, Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA and New York, NY, 1996), cat. no. 17

Exhibition History

  • Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770-1970, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1970 - 05/03/1970
  • 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
  • Tiepolos in America, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 01/08/1978 - 02/19/1978; Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Springfield, 03/19/1978 - 05/07/1978
  • Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/12/1996 - 12/15/1996; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 01/15/1997 - 04/13/1997

Verification Level

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