Classical Figures Gathered around an Urn, 1724/1729

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper; black chalk sketches of mostly architecture on verso

Dimensions

overall: 33 x 27 cm (13 x 10 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

1989.7.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 115 / DT[?]TBTTANN

Provenance

Douglas Huntly Gordon (Lugt 1130a), Baltimore, MD, 1947; by descent to Mrs. Douglas Gordon; (sale, New York, Christie's, 11 January 1989, lot 62); purchased (via David Tunick) by NGA, 1989.

Associated Names

Gordon, Douglas Huntly
Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

1970: Tiepolo, A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770-1970, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA 1970, no. 6, repro.

1995: Splendori del Settecento Veneziano, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1995, p. 419, no. 136, repro.

1995: The Glory of Venice: Art In the Eighteenth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1995, not in catalogue.

2006: The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2006.

2014: La Poesia della Luce: Disegni Veneziani dalla National Gallery of Art di Washington, Museo Correr, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 64, repro.

Bibliography

1970: Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition. Exh. cat. The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1970: no. 6.

1995: Splendori del Settecento Veneziano. Exh. cat. Electa, Milan, 1995: 419.