Artist: After Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, Verona 1528–1588 Venice)
Date:1727–1804
Medium:Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue paper
Dimensions:13 1/8 x 9 3/16in. (33.3 x 23.3cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Accession Number:37.165.53
Inscription: On verso, annotated in pen and brown ink: 80(?) 4th. 12. No 3103; in graphite: 853 (Bossi-Beyerlen "code number"; see Knox, 1980, I, pp. 200-207) Numbered in graphite on frame: No 100"; "27"; "49" and stamp in purple ink (illegible). Numbered in red crayon on board: "263". Sticker on frame with number 372.
Marking: Watermark (only partly legible): [Letters RO SA] (it may be similar in type to no. 36 in Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle, Drawings from New York Collections, vol. III, The 18th Century in Italy, New York, 1971.)
Giovanni Domenico Bossi; Maria Theresa Karoline Bossi; Karl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen; H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart (German), sale March 27-28, 1882, uncertain lot no.; Eisemann; Dr. Hans Wendland; de Vries; Hôtel Drouot, Parissale, salle 11, May 23, 1930, no. 66; 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.
Detlev Baron von Hadeln The Drawings of G. B. Tiepolo. 2 vols., Paris, 1928, fig. no. vol.2, pl. 135, vol.1, pp. 23-24, ill.
Harry B. Wehle Tiepolo and His Contemporaries. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1938, cat. no. 46, fig. no. 46, ill.
Otto Benesch Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America. New York, 1947.
Max H. von Freeden, Carl Lamb Das Meisterwerk des Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Die Fresken der Würzburger Residenz. Munich, 1956, cat. no. 46, fig. no. pl. 46, p. 105, ill.
George Knox, Adelheid M. Gealt "The Paintings by G. P. Tiepolo." in Burlington Magazine. vol. 105, London, 1963, fig. no. 59, p. 328, ill.
Claus Virch The Artist and the Animal. Exh. Cat., May 7-24. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1968, cat. no. 46, fig. no. 46, p. 43, ill.
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. 32, fig. no. 32, ill.
Antonio Morassi "Sui disegni del Tiepolo nelle recenti mostre di Cambridge Mass. e di Stoccarda" Arte Veneta. vol. 24, Venice, 1970.
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. 66, no. 153 (as Giambattista Tiepolo), 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. 10, p. 246, ill.
James Byam Shaw "Tiepolo Celebrations: Three Catalogues." in Master Drawings. vol. 9, New York, 1971, p. 269.
George Knox, Adelheid M. Gealt "Italian Drawings in New York" The Burlington Magazine. vol. 113, no. 818, London, May 1971, cat. no. vol. 118, p. 291.
Aldo Rizzi The Etchings of the Tiepolos. Complete Edition. London, 1971, cat. no. 151, p. 328.
George Knox, Adelheid M. Gealt Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo. A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of Chalk Drawings. 2 vols., Oxford, 1980, cat. no. vol. 1, 2, fig. no. pl. 30, pp. 11-12,, 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. 240, fig. no. 240, pp. 246-47, ill.
Bernard Aikema, Margaret Tuijn Tiepolo in Holland. Works by Giambattista Tiepolo and his circle in Dutch collections Exh. cat., Rotterdam. Rotterdam, 1996, fig. no. 1, p. 50, 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. 13, p. 13, ill.
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