1946.52: Head of a Bearded Man

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1946.52

People

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1696 - 1770 Madrid, Spain)

Title

Head of a Bearded Man

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1753

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297289

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk wash on white antique laid paper

Dimensions

28.5 × 20.5 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/16 in.)
mat: 40.5 × 31 cm (15 15/16 × 12 3/16 in.)
frame: 52.4 × 43 × 3.2 cm (20 5/8 × 16 15/16 × 1 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Convent of the Somaschi (Santa Maria Salute), Venice.
Leopoldo Cicognara.
Antonio Canova.
Francesco Pesaro.
Edward Cheney, Purchase, 1842, Auction sale at Sotheby's London, 1885. Presumably as part of lot no. 1024.
Sotheby's, London, 1885, Auction sale, presumably part of lot 1024, 1885.
E. Parsons and Sons, London.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London.
Richard Owen, Paris.
Andoga.
F. Gentili.
Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA, Purchase, 1931, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1946.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund

Accession Year

1946

Object Number

1946.52

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Eduard Sack, Giambattista und Domenico Tiepolo: ihr Leben und ihre Werke, H. v. Clarmanns Kunstverlag (Hamburg, Germany, 1910), no. 164
• Anna Maria Brizio, "Unpublished Drawings by G. B. Tiepolo", Old Master Drawings (1933), vol. VIII, 1933, pp. 16-20, p. 16, pl. 17
• Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, exh. cat., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy/Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1935), no. 65, repr.
• Tiepolo and His Contemporaries, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1938), no. 50
• Frederick Bruce Robinson, "'Portrait of an Oriental' by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo", Bulletin [Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield], Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield (Springfield, MA, 1948), vol. 14, no. 3, no page indication
• Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 108, repr.
• Arthur Millier, The Drawings of Tiepolo (London, England, 1956), no. 17
• 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), no. 94, repr.
• Aldo Rizzi, L'opera grafica dei Tiepolo. Le acqueforti (Milan, Italy, 1971), p. 386, fig. LX
• Terisio Pignatti, Tiepolo: Disegni, La Nuova Italia Editrice (Florence, Italy, 1974), repr. no. LXI
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 67, n.p., repr. n.p., pl. 67
• Debora Mayer, "Technical Examination of Red Chalk" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 1-33 passim
• Marina Maiskaya, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow (Moscow, 1986), under no. 63, repr.
• Marjorie B. Cohn, "Red Chalk: Historical and Technical Perspectives, Part 1: Aspects of Historical Usage", Drawings Defined, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1987), pp. 165-170, pp. 168 and 170 (n. 39)
• Deborah D. Mayer and Pamela B. Vandiver, "Red Chalk: Historical and Technical Perspectives, Part 2: A Technical Study", Drawings Defined, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, 1987), pp. 171-180, p. 173, repr. p. 173, fig. 3 (macrophotograph of media)
• 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. 67, n.p., and pp. 12 and 65, and under cat. no. 56, n.p., repr. color
• Jane Martineau and Andrew Robison, The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1994), no. 115, repr.
• 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), no. 110, repr.
• Old Master & British Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, London (London, July 4, 2012), p. 56
• Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, July 5, 2017), under lot 35

Exhibition History

• Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 01/01/1935 - 01/31/1935
• Tiepolo and his Contemporaries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03/14/1938 - 04/24/1938
• Four Centuries of Venetian Painting, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 03/01/1940 - 03/31/1940
• Venice in the Eighteenth Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/05/1948 - 06/10/1948
• Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770-1970, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1970 - 05/03/1970
• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
• The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 09/15/1994 - 12/14/1994; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 01/29/1995 - 04/23/1995
• 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
• 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/11/2015 - 07/09/2015

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