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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1963.143
People
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1696 - 1770 Madrid, Spain)
Title
Two Fauns Reclining
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296948

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
22.4 x 14.6 cm (8 13/16 x 5 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt, Paris [sale, Sotheby's, London, May 8-10, 1929, lot 273]. [P. & D. Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs (by 1929), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1963

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1963
Object Number
1963.143
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Drawings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries: The Magnasco Society Exhibition, exh. cat. (London, 1927), no. 42
  • Catalogue of the Very Choice and Valuable Collections of the Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt, auct. cat., Sotheby's, London (London, May 8-10, 1929), lot 273
  • Arthur McComb, Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / Morgan Memorial (Hartford, CT, 1930), no. 58
  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1938), no. 61
  • Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos, Giambattista and Giandomenico, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1938), no. 61
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 349, fig. 174

Exhibition History

  • Loan Exhibition of Drawings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries: The Magnasco Society Exhibition, Warren Gallery
  • Italian Painting of the Sei and Settecento, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/22/1930 - 02/05/1930
  • Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/03/1938 - 03/06/1938
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947

Verification Level

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