The Parting of Saints Peter and Paul

1785/1795

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1727 - 1804

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over charcoal on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 47.5 × 37 cm (18 11/16 × 14 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1993.51.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jean-François Gigoux [1806-1894] (Lugt 1164), Paris; (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20-23 March 1882, lot 174); Lady Anderson; (sale, London, Christie's, 9 December 1986, lot 64); (Kate Ganz Ltd., London, 1987); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Italian Drawings 1500-1800, Kate Ganz Ltd., London, 1987, no. 34.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, (hors de catalogue).

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 44.

1993

  • Nine Old Master Drawings: Recent Gifts from the Woodner Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993 (checklist only).

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 94.

1996

  • Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman, Civici Musei e Gallerie di Storia ed Arte, Udine, 1996; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1997, no. 110.

2006

  • "Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament", The Frick Collection, New York, 2006-2007, 65 (detail, fig. 65); 680-681, 814, no. 296 (Adelheid M. Gealt and George Knox).

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 114.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1962

  • Byam Shaw, James. The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo. London, 1962: 36.

1990

  • Woodner Collection: Master Drawings. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990: 128-129.

1994

  • Gazette des Beaux Arts, "Principales Acquisitions des Musees en 1993," Gazette des Beaux Arts (1994): no. 252.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: 330-333, no. 94.

1996

  • Conrad, Cristofer. Die grossformatigen religiösen Zeichnungen Giovanni Domenico Tiepolos (Heidelberg: 1996): no. 256.

  • Gealt, Adelheid M. and George Knox. Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman. Electa, Milan, 1996: 84, 181, and cover.

2001

  • Whistler, Catherine. "L'Occhio critico: osservatione, emulazione e trasformazione nell'arte di Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)," in Le Metamorfosi di Venezia, Da capitale di stato a città del mondo, Gino Benzoni, ed., Florence, 2001: 211, fig. 1.

2006

  • Gealt, Adelheid M. and George Knox. _Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament." Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (2006): 5, 65, 680-681, 814, no. 296.

Inscriptions

lower right in brown ink: Dom.o Tiepolo f.; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Deux Saints conduit au duplace D. Tiepolo

Watermarks

hand with sword and initial "W" below

Wikidata ID

Q64572409

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