Christ Leading Peter, James, and John to the High Mountain for the Transfiguration

1785/1795

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1727 - 1804

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and gray ink and pen and black ink over black chalk with a variety of gray, black, brown and golden brown washes

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 48 × 38.6 cm (18 7/8 × 15 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1987.48.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Roger Cormier, Tours; his sale, Paris, Georges Petit, Apr. 30, 1921, no. 5; Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 24, 1985, 12; Paris, Proute 1987, 34.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2006

  • "Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament", The Frick Collection, New York, 2006-2007, 56, 57, fig. 46; 352 (reprod.); 354-355, 767, no. 139 (Adelheid M. Gealt and George Knox).

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 113.

Bibliography

1921

  • Guerlin, Henri. Au temps du Christ : Jésus, la vièrge, les apôtres (Tours:1921): 73.

1987

  • Paul Proute, CATALOGUE "CAMPAGNOLA", 1987, no.34.

1989

  • Hammer 1989, 4th entry.

1996

  • Conrad, Cristofer. Die grossformatigen religiösen Zeichnungen Giovanni Domenico Tiepolos. (Heidelberg: 1996): no. 147.

2006

  • Gealt, Adelheid M. and George Knox. _Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament." Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (2006): 56-57, 354, 355, 767.

Inscriptions

lower right in pen and gray ink: 968

Watermarks

three crescents (none in Heawood close enough)

Wikidata ID

Q64572407

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