1965.418: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.418

People

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

Title

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1730-1739

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299827

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on white antique laid paper

Dimensions

43 x 29 cm (16 15/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
framed: 58.4 x 44.5 x 2.5 cm (23 x 17 1/2 x 1 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Prince Alexis Orloff, Paris [sale, Galerie Georges Petit, April 29-30, 1920, lot 79]. Paul J. Sachs, by 1927, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.418

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Catalogue des tableaux anciens des écoles du moyen-âge... composant la collection de son excellence feu le Prince Alexis Orloff, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, April 29, 1920 - April 30, 1920), lot 79, repr.
• Arthur McComb, Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / Morgan Memorial (Hartford, CT, 1930), p. 30, no. 59
• Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1938), no. 52
• Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos, Giambattista and Giandomenico, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1938), no. 52
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 347, p. 173; vol. 2, repr. fig. 172
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 13
• Jakob Rosenberg, "The Problem of Quality in Old Master Drawings", Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Department of Fine Arts of Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH, 1951), vol. VIII, no. 2, pp. 32-49, p. 46, repr.
• Exhibition of Favorite Italian and Spanish Masters of the 17th and 18th Centuries (the Baroque Era), exh. cat., Winnipeg Art Gallery Association (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1951), no. 40
• Paul J. Sachs, The Pocket Book of Great Drawings, Pocket Books, Inc. (New York, 1951), p. 44, repr.
• Helen Comstock, "Eighteenth-Century Italian Figure Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum", The Connoisseur (May 1955), vol. CXXXV, no. 546, pp. 274-280
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 34, repr.
• Daniel M. Mendelowitz, Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1967), p. 408, repr. fig. 17-11
• Seymour Simmons, III and Mark S. A. Winer, Drawing: the Creative Process, Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977)
• 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, A Guide to 100 American and European Drawings: A Portfolio, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1982)
• Daniel M. Mendelowitz and Duane A. Wakeham, Mendelowitz's Guide to Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1982)
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 278, p. 238, repr.
• 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. 65, n.p., and p. 65, and under cat. no. 56, n.p., repr. in color
• James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 220-221, repr. in color
• Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
• Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 36 under "Quill pen"
• Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 4, p. 26, and pp. 9-10, fig. 3
• Daniel M. Mendelowitz, David L. Faber, and Duane A. Wakeham, A Guide to Drawing, Thomson Wadsworth (Belmont, CA, 2007), fig. 11-17, p. 222
• Matthias Waschek, Marjorie B. Cohn, Judith Mann, and Stephan Wolohojian, Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2008), no. 48, repr. pp. 34-35

Exhibition History

• Italian Painting of the Sei and Settecento, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/22/1930 - 02/05/1930
• Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/03/1938 - 03/06/1938
• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• Venice in the Eighteenth Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/05/1948 - 06/10/1948
• Exhibition of Favorite Italian and Spanish Masters of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 01/01/1951 - 12/31/1951
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
• Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
• Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009

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