
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004478Satyr Surprising a Satyress
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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