Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush with pale and dark brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions:16-1/16 x 11-7/16 in. (40.8 x 29.1 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Object Number:37.165.10
Inscription: Annotated in graphite on verso, Ce dessin a été doublé.
Marking: Watermark: large trefoil, large letters V d (see MMA and The Pierpont Morgan Library, Drawings from New York Collections, Vol. 3 ... see Exh., watermark no. 31)
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.
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.
Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, also N.S., no. 13., cat. no. 38 (vol.1), fig. no. 38, ill.
"Some Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum." Connoisseur. vol. 110, New York, January 1943, p. 151.
Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 43, fig. no. 43, ill.
Claus Virch "Dreams of Heaven and Earth. Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo in the Wrightsman Collection" in Apollo. vol. 90, London, September 1969, fig. no. 2, p. 175, p. 173, ill.
Terisio Pignatti I disegni dei maestri: La scuola veneta. Edited by Walter Vitzthum, vol. 1-3, Milan, 1970, fig. no. vol 2, pl. 28, vol. 2, p. 85, 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, p. 54, no. 110, ill.
Joseph Breck "A Selection from the Exhibition 'The Eighteenth Century in Italy. Drawings from New York Collections, III." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 29, no. 5, New York, January 1971, p. 248, ill.
Everett Fahy "Tiepolo's Meeting of Anthony and Cleopatra." in Burlington Magazine. London, 1971, fig. no. pl. 24, p. 85, ill.
Everett Fahy The Wrightsman Collection. vol. 5, London, 1973, fig. no. 6, p. 226, p. 225, ill.
Terisio Pignatti Tiepolo: Disegni. Florence, 1974, fig. no. 24, ill.
Terisio Pignatti, Giandomenico Romanelli Drawings from Venice. Masterworks from the Museo Correr, Venice. Exh. cat., New York, The Drawing Center. New York-London, 1985, fig. no. 27, p. 41, ill.
Michael Levey Giambattista Tiepolo. His Life and Art. New Haven and London, 1986, fig. no. pl. 146, pp. 156 - 158, ill.
Nicholas Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Anne Stevens, Ian Woodner Master Drawings, The Woodner Collection. Exh. cat., London, Royal Academy of Art. London, 1987, cat. no. 32, p. 104.
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. 233, fig. no. 233, pp. 236-41, ill.
The Woodner Collection: Master Drawings. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, cat. no. 40, p. 120.
The Glory of Venice. Art in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art; London, Royal Academy. edited by Jane Martineau, Edited by Andrew Robison, London, 1994, cat. no. no. 100, fig. no. fig. 100, p. 183, ill.
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. 54, pp. 152-53, ill.
Keith Christiansen "Tiepolo, Theater, and the Notion of Theatricality." The Art Bulletin. Vol. 81, no. 4, Dec. 1999, pp. 673, 676, fig. 16.
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