1923.58: Group of Farm Buildings

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1923.58

People

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

Title

Group of Farm Buildings

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1750-1759

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299146

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

16.2 × 26.2 cm (6 3/8 × 10 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: seven-petaled flower on a stem (Mongan-Sachs W. 36)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1923

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross

Accession Year

1923

Object Number

1923.58

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos, Giambattista and Giandomenico, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1938), no. 83, repr.
• Tiepolo and His Contemporaries, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1938), no. 54
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 351, p. 174; vol. 2, repr. fig. 175
• Charles de Tolnay, History and Technique of Old Master Drawings: A Handbook, H. Bittner and Company (New York, 1943), no. 136, repr.
• Antonio Morassi, Tiepolo, Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche (Bergamo, Italy, 1943), p. 49, fig. 140b
• Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States, J. J. Augustin, Inc. (New York, 1947), no. 91
• Otto Benesch, Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America (New York, NY, 1947), p. 43, no. 35
• "Exhibition of Master Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in France and Italy", Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Department of Fine Arts of Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH, 1951), vol. VIII, pp. 50-57, no. 19
• Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967)
• Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 54
• 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. 82, repr.
• George Knox, Un quaderno di vedute di Giambattista e Domenico Tiepolo, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1974), no. 39
• XVIII Century Venice: Drawings from American Academic Collections: Paintings from the Seattle Art Museum, exh. cat., Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA, 1974), no. 19, repr. with text p. 27
• H. Diane Russell, "Venetian Drawings", Master Drawings (Autumn 1976), Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 309-312, p. 311
• European Drawings from the Fitzwilliam, exh. cat., International Exhibitions Foundation (Washington, D.C, 1976), under no. 39
• Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing [2nd ed.], Prentice-Hall Press (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977), p. 244., fig. 8.32
• The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates, exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL, 1978), no. 67, repr.
• 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
• 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. 68, n.p., and p. 68, repr. color
• Da Pisanello a Tiepolo: disegni veneti dal Fitzwilliam Museum di Cambridge, exh. cat., Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice, Italy, 1992), under no. 76
• 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. 88, repr.
• Patricia Ross Pratt, The Best of Its Kind: The Life of Denman Waldo Ross, Teacher, Collector, Painter, 1853-1935, Northern Liberties Press (Philadelphia, 2020), repr. as no. 43

Exhibition History

• Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/03/1938 - 03/06/1938
• Tiepolo and his Contemporaries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03/14/1938 - 04/24/1938
• Venice in the Eighteenth Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/05/1948 - 06/10/1948
• Exhibition of Master Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in France and Italy, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 01/01/1951 - 01/31/1951
• Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
• Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
• Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770-1970, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1970 - 05/03/1970
• XVIII Century Venice: Drawings from American Academic Collections, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 09/22/1974 - 10/20/1974
• 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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