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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.416
People
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1696 - 1770 Madrid, Spain)
Title
A Sacrifice
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1728
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296378

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
37.2 × 26 cm (14 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, red chalk: [cross]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1933), 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
1965.416
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 358, p. 177, as school of Tiepolo
  • 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. 7, repr.
  • Meredith Mickelson, "The Differentiation of Early Inks by Analytical Methods" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, September 1981), Unpublished, passim
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), repr. fig. 50

Exhibition History

  • Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770-1970, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1970 - 05/03/1970

Verification Level

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