Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002469Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Provenance
Possibly Edward Cheney, London; sold, Sotheby's, London, May 5, 1885 [according to Chicago 1974]. Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Rome, by 1932 [according to Ojetti 1932]. Given by Samuel H. Kress to Mrs. Delora Kilvert, New York [according to Audrey de Ayala as stated in correspondence from Gerald Stiebel dated February 7, 2004 in curatorial file]; by descent to her daughter, Audrey de Ayala [according to correspondence with Gerald Stiebel]; sold to Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York [according to correspondence with Gerald Stiebel]; sold to the Art Institute, 1968.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, cat. 16, by Harold Joachim. The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, pp. 80 and 171, cat. 120, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Eighteenth 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. 60-61, cat. 21 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
Publications
Ugo Ojetti, Settecento Italiano, vol. I (Milan, 1932), no. 289 (ill.). Anna Pallucchini, Giambattista Tiepolo (Milan, 1971), p. 28, pl. 63. Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), pl. 128, p. 80, no. 120. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), pp. 49-50, no. 2B5.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo / Italian, 1696–1770
- Date
- c. 1760
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash, with black chalk, on ivory laid paper, tipped on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 28.5 × 20.8 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1968.311
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