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A brown ink drawing of two winged figures flying over the body of a man holding a cross.

A brown ink drawing of two winged figures flying over the body of a man. The two winged figures look upon the man, who lay on the ground on his back with one arm outstretched to his side. The man is lying at the base of a large cross. A skull is on the ground next to his head, and a pile of objects by his feet.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1961.171
People
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1696 - 1770 Madrid, Spain)
Title
Death of Saint Onophrius (?)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Saint with Angels
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/300008

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
43 x 29.4 cm (16 15/16 x 11 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1961

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
1961.171
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue des Tableaux Anciens, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, April 29, 1920 - April 30, 1920), no. 154, repr.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 66, n.p., repr. pl. 66
  • Fine Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, England, April 1, 1987), under no. 83 by its Orloff sale number (incorrect) and without location
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Adelheid Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum and Indiana University Press (Bloomington, 2006), pp. 751-752, repr. as fig. 137 on p.752

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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