Classical Figures Gathered around an Urn
1724/1729
Artist, Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper; black chalk sketches of mostly architecture on verso
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 33 x 27 cm (13 x 10 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1989.7.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Douglas Huntly Gordon (Lugt 1130a), Baltimore, MD, 1947; by descent to Mrs. Douglas Gordon; (sale, New York, Christie's, 11 January 1989, lot 62); purchased (via David Tunick) by NGA, 1989.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1970
Tiepolo, A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770-1970, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA 1970, no. 6, repro.
1995
Splendori del Settecento Veneziano, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1995, p. 419, no. 136, repro.
The Glory of Venice: Art In the Eighteenth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1995, not in catalogue.
2006
The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2006.
2014
La Poesia della Luce: Disegni Veneziani dalla National Gallery of Art di Washington, Museo Correr, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 64, repro.
Bibliography
1970
Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition. Exh. cat. The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1970: no. 6.
1995
Splendori del Settecento Veneziano. Exh. cat. Electa, Milan, 1995: 419.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 115 / DT[?]TBTTANN
Watermarks
shield containing a profile of a running figure carrying (?) a cross (not in Briquet)
Wikidata ID
Q64572369