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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1920.28
People
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1727 - 1804 Venice, Italy)
Title
Sheet of Studies; verso: A Sovereign Giving Audience
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1753
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298869

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
Technique
3.5 x 4.5 Polaroid print
Dimensions
35.2 × 23.5 cm (13 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right, graphite: XVIo No 44

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bossi. Beyerlen. Eisenmann. Edward Habich, Boston and Kassel (Lugt 862). Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1920

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1920
Object Number
1920.28
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eduard Sack, Giambattista und Domenico Tiepolo: ihr Leben und ihre Werke, H. v. Clarmanns Kunstverlag (Hamburg, Germany, 1910), cat. no. 90
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 359, p. 178, as school of Tiepolo
  • 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. nos. 61 and 62
  • Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing [2nd ed.], Prentice-Hall Press (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977), repr. fig. 12.5
  • Meredith Mickelson, "The Differentiation of Early Inks by Analytical Methods" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, September 1981), Unpublished, passim
  • Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, Prentice-Hall Press (Englewood Cliffs, 1984), p. 346, repr. fig. 12.6
  • Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, Prentice-Hall Press (Englewood Cliffs, 1992), p. 366, repr. fig. 13.7

Exhibition History

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

Verification Level

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