
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002209Jesus in the House of Jairus
Provenance
Luzarches, Tours, France, to Rogier Cormier, Tours, France, 1868 [according Guerlin 1921]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 30, 1921, lot 26. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1960.
Exhibition history
New York, Jacques Seligmann and Company, 1960. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 23, pl. VII. The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 21 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 142, cat. 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. 62-63, cat. 22 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986. New York, The Frick Collection, "Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament," October 24, 2006-January 7, 2007.
Publications
Henri Guerlin, "Giovanni-Domenico Tiepolo, une collection de ses dessins," Revue de l’Art 39 (1921), p. 223. Art Quarterly, XXIV (Spring 1961), pp. 97 and 102 (ill.). John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), pp. 151-152 (ill.). Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), pp. 53-54, no. 2C4.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo / Italian, 1727-1804
- Date
- 1790/1804
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and black and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 47.8 × 38.1 cm (18 7/8 × 15 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection
- Accession no.
- 1960.547
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