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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.422
People
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1727 - 1804 Venice, Italy)
Title
Saint Ambrose
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1751
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296380

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on white antique laid paper
Dimensions
34 x 16.5 cm (13 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right: Domo Tiepolo f
  • watermark: crown above elaborate shield
  • inscription: lower right: Domo Tiepolo f

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1930), 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
1965.422
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos, Giambattista and Giandomenico, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1938), no. 84
  • Tiepolo and His Contemporaries, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1938), no. 70
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 354, pp. 175-76; vol. 2, repr. fig. 178
  • James Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, Faber & Faber (London) (London, England, 1962), p. 75, repr. pl. 13
  • 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. 55, 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, repr. fig. 54
  • Tiepolo in Würzburg: Der Himmel auf Erden, exh. cat., Prestel (Munich, Germany and New York, NY, 1996), cat. no. 28, repr.; also under cat. no. 24
  • Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman, exh. cat., Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN, 1997), no. 28

Exhibition History

  • Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/03/1938 - 03/06/1938
  • Tiepolo and his Contemporaries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03/14/1938 - 04/24/1938
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • 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 in Würzburg, Bayerische Verwaltung, Munich, 02/14/1996 - 05/19/1996
  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/11/2015 - 07/09/2015

Verification Level

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