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Tiepolo Drawings

September 17 – October 15, 1961
Main Floor, Galleries 68, 69, 69A, 70

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: A selection of 135 drawings and 8 etchings from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, was organized under the supervision of its director, Sir Trenchard Cox, for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Graham Reynolds, keeper of the department of prints and drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, prepared the catalogue and accompanied the exhibition to Washington. The exhibition was circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

Attendance: 18,037

Catalog: Tiepolo Drawings from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, by Graham Reynolds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1961.

Other Venues: Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, November 1–November 30, 1961
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 15, 1961–January 15, 1962
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 1–February 28, 1962
Art Institute of Chicago, March 15–April 15, 1962

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
Italian, 1696 - 1770
Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico
Italian, 1727 - 1804