1965.422: Saint Ambrose

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

Permissions

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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

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