Two Rampaging Elephants, 1790/1792

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Medium

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

Dimensions

sheet: 36.7 × 50.3 cm (14 7/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
image: 29 x 42 cm (11 7/16 x 16 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Accession Number

2007.111.172

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1727 - 1804

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left, brown ink, signed: Dom.o Tiepolo f

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 20 March 1974, no. 134); Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen [1943-1997], Vadiz and Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

List, Herbert
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Sotheby's, London
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1977: Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts, Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, 220, no. 101 (entry by Peter Dreyer).

1979: Zeichnungen italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 56, no. 92.

1996: Giandomenico Tiepolo, Maestria e gioco, Disegni dal mondo, Castello di Udine; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1996, no. 19.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 62.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 116.

Bibliography

1977: Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1977: 220-221.

1996: Gealt, Adelheid, and George Knox. Giandomenico Tiepolo: Maestria e gioco. Disegni dal mondo. Castello di Udine and Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington. Milan, 1996: 55 (reprod.), 187 (under no. 118), 240, no. 19 (trans. into English as Domenico Tiepolo, Master Draftsman. Bloomington, 1997).

1996: Gealt, Adelheid M. and George Knox. Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman. Electa, Milan, 1996: 55, 187, under 118, 240 (no. 19).

2005: Gealt, Adelheid, and George Knox. Giandomenico Tiepolo, Scene di vita quotidiana a Venezia e nella terraferma. Venice, 2005, 105, 107, no. 19.

2011: Italian Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1525-1835. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011: 142-143.