Medium:Pen and dark brown ink, brush and dark brown wash
Dimensions:7 1/2 x 10 3/4in. (19 x 27.3cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Accession Number:37.165.61
Signature: Signed in pen and dark brown ink at lower left, "Domo. Tiepolo f".
Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink on old mount, "Nº 84 / fotografato dal Valencin / fa parte della Raccolta de' 100 disegni originali di [...]." (Probably trimmed) illegible number in pen and brown ink at upper left.
Marking: Collector's stamp in blue at bottom right corner (Lugt 1768).
Baron Louis-Auguste de Schwiter (German); Schwiter sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris- salle 3, April 20-21, 1883, no. 124; 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.
Schwiter (Baron Louis Auguste de) Collection. Sale cat., April, 20-21. Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Paris, 1883, cat. no. 142, p. 70.
Eduard Sack Giambattista und Domenico Tiepolo. Hamburg, 1910, cat. no. 137, p. 322.
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, cat. no. 58 (vol.1), fig. no. 58, ill.
James Byam Shaw The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo.. London and Boston, 1962, cat. no. 38, fig. no. 38, pp. 41, 79, 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, cat. no. 246, p. 100, 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. 246.
Jean Cailleux "L'Art du Dix-huitième Siècle" An Advertisement Supplement to The Burlington Magazine. vol. 116, London, 1974, cat. no. 92, 98, fig. no. 85, pp. 26, 28, ill.
Profil du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York, de Ramsès à Picasso.. Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, Bordeaux, May 15 - Sept. 1,1981, cat. no. 140, fig. no. 140.
James Byam Shaw and George Knox The Robert Lehman Collection, vol. VI, Italian Eighteenth Century Drawings. vol. 6, New York, 1987, cat. no. no. 140, p. 171.
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. 256, fig. no. 256, pp. 258-59, ill.
George Knox, Adelheid M. Gealt Giandomenico Tiepolo. Disegni dal mondo Exh. cat., Udine, Italy, Castello di Udine, September 14 - December 31, 1996. Milan, 1996, p. 89, ill.
George Knox, Adelheid M. Gealt Domenico Tiepolo. Master Draftsman Exh. cat., Udine, Italy, Castello di Udine, September 14 - December 31, 1996; Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Art Museum, January 15 - March 9, 1997. Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1996; originally published as "Giandomenico Tiepolo. Disegni dal mondo", p. 89, ill.
Linda Wolk-Simon "Domenico Tiepolo. Drawings, Prints, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art." the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 3, New York, Winter 1996-1997, fig. no. 76, p. 51, ill.
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