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    The Temptation of Saint Anthony
    Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. The Temptation of Saint Anthony, c. 1734. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002370

    The Temptation of Saint Anthony

    by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed verso, bottom edge, in pen and brown ink: "'vdi 4 Marzo 1760 Venezia / dal Sig(r) Davide Ant(o) Fosati o ricevuto io Pietro Monaco / zecchini tre e questo per pagamento del Presente / disegno originale de Sig(r) Gio. Batta. Tiepolo al 260'"

    Provenance

    Sold by Pietro Monaco, Venice, to Davide Antonio Fosati, Mar. 4, 1760 [inscription]. Galerie Pardo, Paris, 1963 [Cambridge, Mass. 1970]. Leo Franklyn, London, 1964 [Cambridge, Mass. 1970]. Sold by Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1964.

    Exhibition history

    Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, "Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition," March 14-May 3, 1970, cat. 11, by George Knox. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 28-29, cat. 13 (ill.), by Harold Joachim. The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute," 1979-1980, cat. 114, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, "18th Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985.

    Publications

    George Knox, "A Group of Tiepolo Drawings Owned and Engraved by Pietro Monaco," Master Drawings, III: 4 (1965), pp. 389-397, fig. 4. Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 78, no. 114, pl. 122. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), pp. 46-47, no. 2A11.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giovanni Battista Tiepolo / Italian, 1696–1770
    Date
    c. 1734
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk and traces of charcoal, heightened with touches of white gouache, on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    40 × 24.7 cm (15 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Helen Regenstein Collection
    Accession no.
    1964.347

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