1965.417: The Holy Family Enthroned with Saint Sebastian, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Francis

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.417

People

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

Title

The Holy Family Enthroned with Saint Sebastian, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Francis

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1735

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/300009

Physical Descriptions

Medium

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

Dimensions

43.2 × 29.5 cm (17 × 11 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Prince Alexis Orloff, Paris [sale, Galerie Georges Petit, April 29-30, 1920, lot 135]. 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

1965.417

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 135, repr.
• Arthur McComb, Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / Morgan Memorial (Hartford, CT, 1930), no. 56
• 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. 48
• Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos, Giambattista and Giandomenico, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1938), no. 48
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 346, fig. 171
• George Knox, "The Orloff Album of Tiepolo Drawings", The Burlington Magazine (1961), vol. CIII, 1961, pp. 269-275, p. 274
• 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. 33, 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. 64, n.p., and p. 65 and under cat. no. 56, n.p., repr. (color)
• Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
• Bernard Aikema, "Some Early Drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo", Master Drawings (Winter 2004), vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 361-369, pp. 363-64, repr. p. 365, fig. 4
• Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 116, repr.

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, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• 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
• Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770-1970, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1970 - 05/03/1970

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