The Fall of the Rebel Angels

1712/1715

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1696 - 1770

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk, and pen and black ink with gray wash; scattered unrelated touches of red chalk on left

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 34.5 × 46.7 cm (13 9/16 × 18 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1974.72.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Siegmund Nauheim, Frankfurt; Alberto Sichel Morales; (sale Christie's, London, 25 June 1974, no. 60, repro); purchased (via Yvonne tan Bunzl) by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Figure Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 63.

Bibliography

1996

  • Tiepolo and His Circle. Drawings in American Collections. Fogg Art Museum, Cambirdge, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Cambridge, 1996: 16.

Inscriptions

by artist in black ink "Al Molto Ill Sig"; modern graphite "Kisti" (?)

Wikidata ID

Q64572366

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