God the Father Seated in Clouds Surrounded by Angels and Putti
1753/1759
Artist, Venetian, 1727 - 1804
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and gray ink with golden brown wash over black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (approximate): 25 × 17.3 cm (9 13/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
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Accession
1984.3.66
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Conte Alvise Giustiniani-Recanati, Venice; Heim Galleries, London, 1966; Julius S. Held [1905-2002], Old Bennington, VT.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1979
Master Drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; traveling exhibition, 1979, no. 28.
1986
Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.
1996
Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman, Civici Musei e Gallerie di Storia ed Arte, Udine, 1996, not in cat.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 100.
Bibliography
1959
Heim 6/7-8/31/66, 40.
1962
Byam Shaw, James. The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo. London, 1962: p.32 (re: series).
1979
Master drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held. Exh cat. Burlington, VT, Robert Hull Fleming Museum 1979: 41-42 and pl. 28.
Inscriptions
lower right: Domo Tiepolo f; in later hand, upper left: 98
Watermarks
double line capitals "G F" with "A" above and "C" below
Wikidata ID
Q64572406