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    An Angel with a Book
    Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. An Angel with a Book, late 1740s. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002751

    An Angel with a Book

    by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

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    Provenance

    Johann Dominik Bossi (died 1853), Munich; by descent to his daughter, Maria Theresa Caroline Bossi (died 1881), and her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (died 1881), Stuttgart [according to Knox 1980]; sold, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, March 27, 1882, to Dr. O. Eisenmann, Director of the Gallery at Cassel on behalf of Wilhelm Lübke (died 1893), Stuttgart [according to Knox 1980]; probably sold by the estate of Wilhelm Lübke to Joseph Baer & Sons, Frankfurt [according to Wendland’s oral history and Knox 1980]; sold by Joseph Baer & Sons, to Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano, after 1919 [according to Wedland’s oral history and Knox 1980]. Sold by A & R Ball, New York, to the Art Institute, 1942.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, p. 25, cat. 52, pl. IV, cat. by Carl O. Schniewind. Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Museum of Art, "The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Pirates," January 8- May 7, 1978, cat. 124. Springfield, Mass., Museum of Fine Arts, "The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Pirates," March 19-May 7, 1978. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 124, cat. 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.

    Publications

    Carl O. Schniewind, 1900-1957 Memorial Exhibition of Prints and Drawings (Chicago, 1958), no. 32. Otto Benesch, Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America (New York, 1947), p. 33, no. 33 (ill.). Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), pp. 51-52, no. 2B11. George Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings (Oxford, 1980), p. 275, no. M.555.

    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 Domenico Tiepolo / Italian, 1727-1804
    Date
    late 1740s
    Medium
    Red chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, on blue laid paper
    Dimensions
    25.2 × 19.1 cm (9 15/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Simeon B. Williams Fund
    Accession no.
    1942.456

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