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    Fantasy on the Death of Seneca
    Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Fantasy on the Death of Seneca, 1735/40. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002188

    Fantasy on the Death of Seneca

    by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Gustave Deloye (died 1899), Paris [Lugt 756]; sold, Paris, June 12-15, 1899, lot 132. Ferdinand Roybet (died 1920), Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 14-16, 1920, lot 25. Lucien Guiraud (died 1954), Paris, by 1952 [Paris 1952]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 14-16, 1956, lot 68. Sold by M. Knoedler and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1959.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Galeris Cailleux, "Tiepolo et Guardi," 1952, cat. 22. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Isntitute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 16, pl. 9. Cambridge, Mass., The Fogg Museum, "Tiepolo, A Bicentenary Exhibition," March 14-May 3, 1970, cat. 16. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 30-31, cat. 14 (ill.), by Harold Joachim. The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 116, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, "18th Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 56-57, cat. 19 (ill.), by Martha Tedeschi.

    Publications

    Harold Joachim, "A Late Tiepolo Drawing," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 54 (February 4, 1960), pp. 18-19, (ill.). George Knox, "A Group of Tiepolo Drawings Owned and Engraved by Pietro Monaco," Master Drawings (1965), no. 4, 309 ff. Antonio Morassi, "Sui Disegni del Tiepolo nelle Recenti Mostre di Cambridge Mass. e di Stoccarda," Arte Veneta, 24 (1970), p. 296. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), pp. 148-149 (ill.). Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings from the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings from the 17th Through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), no. 2B1. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26:1 (2000), pp. 5-15, fig. 4.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giovanni Battista Tiepolo / Italian, 1696–1770
    Date
    1735/40
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    34 × 24 cm (13 7/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Helen Regenstein Collection
    Accession no.
    1959.36

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