Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush with pale (yellow) and dark brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions:12-1/16 x 11-3/4 in. (30.6 x 29.8 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Accession Number:37.165.44
Inscription: Annotated in graphite on verso, "1 ½ inch [?] / 2 inch [..]"; and "16 [?] x 15 ½".
Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron; 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.
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.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard Art Museums. "Italian Drawings at the Authur M. Sackler Museum," October 12, 1996–December 15, 1996.
Harvard University Art Museums. "Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections," 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.
Otto Benesch Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America. New York, 1947, cat. no. 21, fig. no. 21, ill.
G. Mazzariol, Terisio Pignatti Itinerario Tiepolesco. Exh. cat. Venice, 1951, cat. no. 21, fig. no. 21, p. 126, ill.
George Knox, Adelheid M. Gealt Catalogue of the Tiepolo Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London, 1960, pp. 14, 39.
George Knox, Adelheid M. Gealt Tiepolo. A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770-1970. Drawings, Mainly From American Collections, by Giambattista Tiepolo and the Members of His Circle. Exh. cat., March 14 - May 3, 1970. Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970, cat. no. 19.
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. 84, p. 48, ill.
Terisio Pignatti Tiepolo: Disegni. Florence, 1974, cat. no. 20, fig. no. pl. 20, 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. 201, fig. no. 201, pp. 212-13, ill.
Svetlana Alpers, Michael Baxandall Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence. New Haven / London, 1994, pp. 19 and 51.
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. 43, pp. 130-31, ill.
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