Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk. Traces of red chalk at upper and lower right. Framing lines in black chalk, and pen and brown ink
Dimensions:19-11/16 x 14-1/2 in. (50 x 36.8 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Accession Number:37.165.14
Marking: Blind stamp, a mounter's mark, at lower right corner, "FR" (Lugt 1042). No watermark visible: Sheet glued down onto secondary paper support.
Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from New York Collections: Eighteenth Century in Italy," January 30–March 21, 1971.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham (AL). "The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates," January 8, 1978–February 19, 1978.
Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield Museums. "The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates," March 19, 1978–May 7, 1978.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "18th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18–December 9, 1990.
The Getty Villa, Malibu. "Drawings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 11, 1993–July 25, 1993.
Harvard University Art Museums. "Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections," October 12, 1996–December 15, 1996.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard Art Museums. "Italian Drawings at the Authur M. Sackler Museum," October 12, 1996–December 15, 1996.
Morgan Library & Museum, New York. "Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections," January 17, 1997–April 13, 1997.
Hermann Warner Williams, Jr. "Tiepolo and His Contemporaries: An Exhibition." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 33, New York, March 1938, p. 66.
Otto Benesch Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America. New York, 1947, cat. no. 12, fig. no. 12, ill.
Antonio Morassi "Some Drawings by the Young Tiepolo." in Burlington Magazine. vol. 91, London, 1949, p. 85.
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Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 40, fig. no. 40, ill.
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, pp. 41-42, no. 61, ill.
James Byam Shaw "The Biron Collection of Venetian Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Metropolitan Museum Journal. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 3, New York, 1971, p. 244.
Saints and their Legends: A Selection of Saints from Michael the Archangel to the Fifteenth Century. Exh. handbook. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974.
E. F. Weeks, Barry Hannegan The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates Exh. cat., Birmingham, Birmingham Museum of Art; Springfield, MA, Museum of Fine Arts. Birmingham, Alabama, 1978, cat. no. 41, fig. no. p. 4, ill.
Hugh MacAndrew Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings. Volume 3: Italian School: Supplement.. Oxford, 1980, p. 161, under no. 997A.
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. 187, fig. no. 187, pp. 194-95, ill.
Marina Magrini "Francesco Fontebasso - I disegni." in Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte. Firenze, 1990, p. 185.
Bernard Aikema Tiepolo and His Circle. Drawings In American Collections. Exh. cat., Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Art Museums; New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library. Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1996, cat. no. 20, pp. 64-65, ill.
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