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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.24
People
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1696 - 1770 Madrid, Spain)
Title
Profile of Two Heads; verso: Hand, Little Pot and a Profile
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296074

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on buff antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 29.6 x 19.4 cm (11 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Upper right corner in brown ink: Piazetta; lower right, brown ink: 10

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Fritz B. Talbot, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Fritz B. Talbot
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.24
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ugo Ruggeri, "Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: fogli da un taccuino al tempo di Udine", Prospettiva (April 1983 - January 1984), vols. XXXIII-XXXVI, cat. no. F., recto repr. fig. 7, also p. 307
  • Francesco Rossi, I grandi disegni italiani dell'Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1985), under cat. no. 51
  • Bernard Aikema, Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA and New York, NY, 1996), cat. no. 5, repr.
  • Works on Paper, auct. cat., Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd. and Marty de Cambiare (London/Paris, 2019), p. 58

Exhibition History

  • Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/12/1996 - 12/15/1996; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 01/15/1997 - 04/13/1997

Verification Level

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