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    Satyr Surprising a Satyress
    Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Satyr Surprising a Satyress, 1759/91. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004478

    Satyr Surprising a Satyress

    by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower right: "Dom Tiepolo."

    Provenance

    Italico Brass (died 1943), Venice. Sold by Alessandro Brass, Venice, to the Art Institute, 1952.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 140, 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. Murano (Venice), Villa Barchessa XXV Aprile, "I Tiepolo: Virtuosismo e Ironia," September 11-November 30, 1988, pp. 85 and 87, fig. 68.

    Publications

    Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), p. 87, no. 140, pl. 152. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 53, no. 2C2.

    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
    1759/91
    Medium
    Pen and brown and black ink, brush and brown and gray wash, on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    19.3 × 27.6 cm (7 5/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    ink or chalk wash
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Edward E. Ayer Endowment Fund in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
    Accession no.
    1952.140

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