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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Saint Jerome in the Desert Listening to the Angels, c. 1732

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with thick white gouache; ruled black chalk borders, on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 42.5 x 27.8 cm (16 3/4 x 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Armand Hammer Collection

Accession Number

1991.217.9

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

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Provenance

Pietro Monaco [1707-1772], Venice, Italy (engraved and published by him in 1743 in Raccolta di centododici stampe di pitture della storia sacra and reissued in 1763); Ann Payne Robertson, New York; (sale Sotheby & Co., London, November 26, 1970, no. 71); Armand Hammer Collection, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Hammer Foundation, Armand, The
Monaco, Pietro
Robertson, Ann Payne

Exhibition History

1971: Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1971, beginning with the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971, and Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, 1976.

1974: Venetian Drawings in American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1974-1975, pp. 36, 68, no. 68.

1976: Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, pp. 50-51, no. 58, repr.

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, p. 73.

1987: Master Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 97-98, no. 15

1994: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 180, 182, 495, no. 96 (repro. p. 180, color)(entry by Colin Harrison).

1996: iepolo and his Circle: Drawings in American Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and the Pierpont Morgan Library, no. 12

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 66.

Bibliography

1966: Linda Bayer, letter to the Editor, Master Drawings vol. 4, no. 2 (1966), p. 169 (mention of drawing).

1970: Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition. Exh. cat. The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1970: under no. 11.

1971: The Armand Hammer Collection. Exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1971: no. 67.

1974: Pignatti, Terisio. Venetian Drawings from American Collections. Washingon, 1974: 36-37.

1975: Debs, Barbara Knowles. "Venetian Drawings from American Collections," Print Collector's Newsletter, Vol. 5, no. 5, Nov./Dec.1975, p. 112.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 672, no. 1075, color repro.

1987: Master Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1987: 97-98.

1994: The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: no. 96.

1996: Tiepolo and His Circle. Drawings in American Collections. Fogg Art Museum, Cambirdge, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Cambridge, 1996: 48-49.