The Virgin and Child Adored by Bishops, Monks, and Women, 1735/1740

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

overall: 42.8 × 30.2 cm (16 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Armand Hammer Collection

Accession Number

1991.217.10

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Image Use

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Provenance

Gregory Vladimirovitch Orloff [1777-1826], St. Petersburg and Paris; Prince Alexis Orloff [1867-before 1920], Paris; (sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 29-30, 1920, no. 134); W.W. Crocker, Burlingame, CA; Augustus Pollack, Monterey, CA; R.M. Light & Co., Boston; Armand Hammer Collection, 1971; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Crocker, W. W.
Hammer Foundation, Armand, The
Light & Co., R. M.
Orloff, Alexis, Prince
Pollack, Augustus

Exhibition History

1935: The Opening Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1935, no illus.

1938: Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico, Art Institute of Chicago, 1938, no. 47.

1948: Seventy Master Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1948-1949, no. 46.

1971: Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1971, beginning with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

1974: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974, no. 70.

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, p. 74.

1994: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 182, 495, no. 99 (repro. p. 182, color)(entry by Colin Harrison).

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 68.

Bibliography

1947: Benesch, Otto. Venetian Drawings of the 18th Century in America. New York, 1947: 31, no. 19.

1949: Mongan, Agnes. One Hundred Master Drawings. Cambridge, Mass., 1949: 106-107.

1961: Knox, George. "The Orloff Album of Tiepolo Drawings." The Burlington Magazine 103 (June 1961): 275, no. 15.

1971: The Armand Hammer Collection. Exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1971: no. 66.

1972: White, Christopher , "The Hammer Collection: Drawings," Apollo, vol. 95, no. 124 (June 1972), p. 460, fig. 8, p. 462.

1974: Recent Acquistiions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974: 115-116.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 672, no. 1076, color repro.

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: 182, 495, no. 99.