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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1940.284
People
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1696 - 1770 Madrid, Spain)
Title
Madonna and Child
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1749
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298411

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, incised for transfer
Dimensions
32.8 x 26 cm (12 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jacob M. Heimann, Gift to HUAM, 1940.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jacob M. Heimann
Accession Year
1940
Object Number
1940.284
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • W.R. Rearick, "Italian Eighteenth Century Drawings at Wellesley College", Arte veneta: rivista di storia dell'arte (Spring 1960), vols. XIII-XIV, p. 293, repr. fig. 364
  • Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1960), cat. no. 56
  • 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. 45, repr.
  • Terisio Pignatti, Venetian Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1974), cat. no. 108, repr.
  • George Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, A Study and Catalogue Raisonne of the Chalk Drawings, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, England, 1980), cat. no. M. 72, pl. 64
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 66, n.p., repr. color

Exhibition History

  • Christmas in Old Master Drawings, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, 11/30/1951 - 12/23/1951
  • Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings at Wellesley College, Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 04/11/1960 - 05/05/1960
  • Studies and Study Sheets, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/26/1964 - 04/18/1964
  • 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

Verification Level

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