Scene of Antique Sacrifice

Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower left, "G: Bison Veneziano"; numbered in pen and brown ink at lower right, "391."
Colnaghi stock number on verso, bottom right, "D 31278 cxx."
Other erased annotations in graphite? at bottom right of verso - illegible.
Numbered on verso, bottom center, in blue crayon, "9."

Luigi Grassi (Italian)(see David Rust letter, 23/11/1990); Helene C. Seiferheld Gallery; Purchased in 3, 1960 by David Rust(see letter, 11/23/1990.); Robert M. Light; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from New York Collections: Eighteenth Century in Italy," January 30–March 21, 1971.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings Recently Acquired, 1969–1971," January 18–April 16, 1972.

Exhibition of Old Master and English Drawings. Exh. cat., May 28 - June 13. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1969, cat. no. no. 46.

Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle Drawings from New York Collections, vol. III: Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1971, cat. no. 297, ill.

"Departmental Accessions: Drawings." in Annual Report of the Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 1, 1970-June 30, 1971. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 101, New York, 1971, p. 16.

Franca Zava Boccazzi "Gli affreschi del Bison" in Arte Veneta. vol. 27, Venice, 1973, fig. no. 335, pp. 237, 238, ill.

Roberta J. M. Olson Italian Drawings 1780-1890 Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1980. New York, 1980, cat. no. 12, ill.

Italian Drawings. Sale catalogue. Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich, Munich, 1988, cat. no. under no. 34, ill.

Jacob Bean, William M. Griswold 18th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, cat. no. 11, fig. no. 11, pp. 32-33, ill.

David Scrase Da Pisanello a Tiepolo. Disegni veneti dal Fitzwilliam Museum di Cambridge Exh. cat. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice (28 May - 15 June 1992). Ed. by Alessandro Bettagno, Milan, 1992, cat. no. under cat. 110, p. 238.

James Christen Steward The Mask of Venice: Masking, Theater, and Identity in the Art of Tiepolo and His Time Exh. cat., Berkeley, CA, Berkeley Art Museum, Dec. 11, 1996 - March 4, 1997. Berkeley, CA, 1996, cat. no. 64, fig. no. 64, p. 111, ill.

Adelheid M. Gealt Disegni di Giuseppe Bernardino Bison nelle collezioni nordamericane in Giuseppe Bernardino Bison: pittore e disegnatore. Exh. cat. Udine, Chiesa di San Francesco (24 Oct., 1997 - 15 Feb., 1998). Ed. by Giuseppe Bergamini, and Fabrizio Magani, Milan, 1997, p. 92.