1965.420: A Boar Hunt

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.420

People

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1727 - 1804 Venice, Italy)

Title

A Boar Hunt

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th-19th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296320

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash over black chalk on white antique laid paper

Dimensions

36 x 47.3 cm (14 3/16 x 18 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: lower center: Dom. Tiepolo f
• watermark: three crescents (Mongan-Sachs W. 38)
• inscription: lower center: Domo Tiepolo f

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Richard Owen, Paris] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1927), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.420

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Arthur McComb, Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / Morgan Memorial (Hartford, CT, 1930), no. 62
• The Tragic and the Grotesque Expressed by Masks and Clowns, exh. cat., Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1935), no. 64, repr.
• Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos, Giambattista and Giandomenico, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1938), no. 105
• The Stage: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association, exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann & Co. (New York, 1939), cat. no. 9
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 356, p. 176; vol. 2, repr. fig. 180
• Bryan Holme, ed., Master Drawings, The Studio Publications Incorporated (New York, NY and London, England, 1943), pl. 78
• Helen Comstock, "Eighteenth-Century Italian Figure Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum", The Connoisseur (May 1955), vol. CXXXV, no. 546, p. 277, repr.
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 38, repr.
• Bryan Holme, Drawings to Live With, Viking Press (New York, NY, 1966), repr.
• Marcia E. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum/Stanford University Museum of Art (Bloomington, IN, 1979), cat. no. S38, repr. (not exhibited)
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 68, n.p., pl. 68, repr.
• George Knox, "Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings, Satire, or Labor of Love?", Satire in the Eighteenth Century, ed. J. D. Browning, Garland Publishers, Inc. (New York, NY, 1983), pp. 129 and 145
• Adelheid Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo: The Punchinello Drawings (New York, NY, 1986), cat. no. 63, repr.
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 71, and under cat. no. 75, n.p., repr. fig. 55
• Matthias Waschek, Marjorie B. Cohn, Judith Mann, and Stephan Wolohojian, Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2008), no. 50, repr. pp. 34-35

Exhibition History

• Unidentified Exhibition, Paris, 1921, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 01/01/1921 - 12/31/1921
• Italian Painting of the Sei and Settecento, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/22/1930 - 02/05/1930
• The Tragic and the Grotesque Expressed by Masks and Clowns, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/07/1935 - 03/30/1935
• Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/03/1938 - 03/06/1938
• The Stage: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 04/03/1939 - 04/22/1939
• Master Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 06/01/1943 - 08/31/1943
• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• Art, Carnival and the Circus: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 01/23/1949 - 02/17/1949
• Three Centuries of the Comic Spirit, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, 05/01/1953 - 05/30/1953
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• Gleams of a Remoter World, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, 03/22/1976 - 04/14/1976
• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
• The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
• Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009

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