The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1735/1740

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper (backed with eighteenth century paper)

Dimensions

overall: 41.8 × 29.7 cm (16 7/16 × 11 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1982.39.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Image Use

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Provenance

deposited by Tiepolo and his son Giuseppe Maria Tiepolo in the Somaschi Convent, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice; Conte Leopoldo Ciognara; by exchange to Antonio Canova [1757-1822], Venice; his half brother Giambattista Sartori-Canova; Francesco Pesaro, Venice; purchased 1842 by Edward Cheney [1803-1884], London; his brother in law, Colonel Alfred Capel-Cure; (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 April 1885, no. 1024); (E. Parsons and Sons); (P.&D. Colnaghi, London); Richard Owen, Paris; Mrs. Vincent; (sold, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1967, no. 21, repro.); John and Paul Herring; (Rosenberg and Stiebel Gallery, New York); (Herman Shickman Gallery, New York); acquired 1982 by NGA.

Associated Names

Canova, Antonio
Capel-Cure, Alfred, Colonel
Cheney, Edward
Cicognara, Leopoldo, Count
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Herring and Mr. Paul L. Herring, John D., Mr.
Owen, Richard
Parsons and Sons, E.
Pesaro, Francesco
Sartori-Canova, Giovanni Battista
Shickman Gallery, Herman
Somaschi Convent
Sotheby's, London
Stiebel, Ltd.

Exhibition History

1983: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

1994: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 182, 183, 496, no. 101 (repro. p. 183, 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. 67.

Bibliography

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: 496, no. 101.