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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.419
People
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1696 - 1770 Madrid, Spain)
Title
Youth Standing Between Two Bearded Old Men
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296379

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on white antique laid paper
Dimensions
19.7 × 18.4 cm (7 3/4 × 7 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso: [illegible]
  • inscription: lower left: Di Gio. Batta. Tiepolo
  • inscription: lower right: GB 161

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[A.S. Drey, Munich] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1929), 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
1965.419
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Tiepolo and His Contemporaries, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1938), no. 51
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 350, fig. 173
  • Helen Comstock, "Eighteenth-Century Italian Figure Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum", The Connoisseur (May 1955), vol. CXXXV, no. 546, cat. no. 546

Exhibition History

  • Tiepolo and his Contemporaries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03/14/1938 - 04/24/1938

Verification Level

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