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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1940.303
People
Lorenzo Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1736 - 1776 Madrid, Spain)
Title
Head of an Old Peasant Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1753
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298344

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, scored with a stylus
Dimensions
actual: 33 x 20.7 cm (13 x 8 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Contini, Rome.
Mrs. J. J. Wyle, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1940.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. J. J. Wyle in Memory of Felix Warburg
Accession Year
1940
Object Number
1940.303
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 63, repr. (as Lorenzo Tiepolo)
  • George Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, A Study and Catalogue Raisonne of the Chalk Drawings, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, England, 1980), no. L1
  • 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. 56
  • Christel Thiem, Ein Zeichnungsalbum der Tiepolo in Würzburg Erkenntnisse zur Praxis und Funktion des Portratzeichnens im Tiepolo-Studio, Hirmer (Munich, Germany, 1996), under no. 40
  • 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. 115
  • Tiepolo in Würzburg: Der Himmel auf Erden, exh. cat., Prestel (Munich, Germany and New York, NY, 1996), p. 163
  • Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, England, July 7, 1998), under no. 156

Exhibition History

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

Verification Level

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