Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002919Caricature of a Man, Full Length, Facing Front
Provenance
Arthur Kay, Edinburgh; sold, Christie’s, London, April 9, 1943, lot 247. Possibly Arcade Gallery, London [Joachim and McCullagh 1979]. Sold by Koetser Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1944.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, pp. 79 and 170, cat. 119 (ill.)., cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. 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 (1965), ff. 309. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), p. 49, no. 2B4.
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
- n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 19.5 × 13.3 cm (7 11/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Samuel P. Avery Collection
- Accession no.
- 1944.174
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