Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk and traces of red chalk; framing lines in black chalk, and pen and brown ink
Dimensions:19-5/8 x 14-5/16 in. (49.8 x 36.3 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Object Number:37.165.15
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; Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tiepolo and his Contemporaries," March 14–April 24, 1938.
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.
Royal Academy of Arts. "The Glory of Venice: Art in the 18th Century," September 15, 1994–December 14, 1994.
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.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," January 8–March 25, 2007.
Harry B. Wehle Tiepolo and His Contemporaries. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1938, cat. no. 37, fig. no. 37, ill.
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.
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. 36 (vol.1), fig. no. 36, ill.
Otto Benesch Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America. New York, 1947, cat. no. 12.
Antonio Morassi "Some Drawings by the Young Tiepolo." in Burlington Magazine. vol. 91, London, 1949, p. 85.
Tiepolo et Guardi. Exposition de Peintures et Dessins provenant de collections françaises publiques et privées Exh. cat. Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 2 vols., Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1952.
Otto Benesch, Konrad Oberhuber Disegni veneti dell'Albertina di Vienna. Exh. cat. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice. 1961, cat. no. 107.
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, p. 42, no. 62, 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, fig. no. 9, pp. 244,245, ill.
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.
George Knox, Adelheid M. Gealt Catalogue of the Tiepolo Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Exh. cat. Victoria and Albert Museum , London, London, 1975, cat. no. 311, p. 93.
Hugh MacAndrew Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings. Volume 3: Italian School: Supplement.. Oxford, 1980, p. 161, under no. 997A.
Aldo Rizzi Giambattista Tiepolo. Disegni dai Civici Musei di Storia e Arte di Trieste. Exh. cat., Trieste, Civico Museo Sartorio. Trieste, 1988, cat. no. 4, p. 46.
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Marina Magrini "Francesco Fontebasso - I disegni." in Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte. Firenze, 1990, p. 185.
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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. 21, pp. 66-67, ill.
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