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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, mid 1740s

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on buff paper

Dimensions

sheet: 33.9 × 26.2 cm (13 3/8 × 10 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection

Accession Number

1991.182.2

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

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Inscription

verso, lower center, by later hand, in graphite: 2067

Marks and Labels

stamped in black ink: Émile Calando collection (Lugt 837); verso, stamped in black ink: Émile Calando collection (Lugt 837)

Provenance

Émile Calando [1840 - 1898], Paris, (Lugt 837). (sale, Christie's, London, 12 April 1983, lot 98); purchased by Ian Woodner [1903-1990], New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Calando, Émile Louis Dominique
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1985: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1985, no. 82 (checklist only).

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 43.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 35.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 32.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 40.

1995: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 82.

2006: 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. 69.

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

Bibliography

1984: de Bayser, Bruno. "Rêves de collectionneur." Connaissance des arts (December 1984): 78, 79.

1986: Dibujos de los siglod XIV al XX: Coleccion Woodner. Exh. cat. Fundacion Amigos del Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986: 128-129.

1986: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner. Exh. cat. Albertina, Vienna, 1986: 90-91.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner. Exh. cat. Dumont, Munich, 1986: 90-91.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection. Exh cat. Royal Academy of Art, London, 1987: 104-105.

1990: Woodner Collection: Master Drawings. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990: 120-121.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: 195-197, no. 82.