1932.343: The Annunciation

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.343

People

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

Title

The Annunciation

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1722

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298646

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink over graphite on off-white antique laid paper

Dimensions

44.5 × 30 cm (17 1/2 × 11 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower left: joannis Baptae Tiepolo Autographum
• inscription: verso, graphite: 59/77

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Adelmann, Würzburg. A. Köster [sale, Boerner, Leipzig, November 13, 1924, lot 468]. Charles A. Loeser, Florence, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.343

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Wertvolle Handzeichnungen alter und neuerer Meister des XV. bis XIX. Jahrhunderts dabei die bekannte Handzeichnungsammlung von Geheimrat A. Köster, auct. cat., C. G. Boerner (Leipzig) (Leipzig, November 13, 1924), lot 468, pl. XXXVIII
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 360, p. 178, as imitator of G. B. Tiepolo
• Antonio Morassi, "Sui disegni del Tiepolo nelle recenti mostre di Cambridge Mass e di Stoccarda", Arte veneta: rivista di storia dell'arte (1970), vol. XXIV, pp. 294-304
• 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. 1, repr.
• Anna Palluchini, Giambattista Tiepolo. Collona disegnatori italiani (Milan, Italy, 1971), p. 16, pl. 7
• Giorgio Vigni, Disegno del Tiepolo (Trieste, Italy, 1972), p. 35
• Pietro Scarpa, Dessins anciens Pietro Scarpa (Venice, Italy, 1978), under no. 56
• The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates, exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL, 1978), no. 29, repr. p. 82
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 35, pp. 82-82, and pp. 9-10, repr.
• Michael Levey, Giambattista Tiepolo, His Life and Art, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1986), pp. 14-16, repr. p. 15
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 65, repr. fig. 49
• 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. 7, repr.
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella A")
• Bernard Aikema, "Some Early Drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo", Master Drawings (Winter 2004), vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 361-369, p. 361

Exhibition History

• 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 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

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