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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Faith Overcoming Heresy (recto); Tracing after Faith Overcoming Heresy (verso) by Pietro Antonio Novelli
    Pietro Antonio Novelli. Faith Overcoming Heresy (recto); Tracing after Faith Overcoming Heresy (verso), 1779/91. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00005011

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    Faith Overcoming Heresy (recto); Tracing after Faith Overcoming Heresy (verso)

    by Pietro Antonio Novelli

    Exhibition history

    Chicago, The Racquet Club, "Sale of Master Drawings from Five Centuries," 1963, cat. 96. International Exhibitions Foundation, "Venetian Drawings," 1974-1975, cat. 115; traveled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Fort Worth Tex.,The Kimbell Art Museum, and the St. Louis Art Museum. The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 149, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art. Washington DC, The National Gallery of Art, "Italian Drawings 1780-1880," March 16, 1980-May 11, 1980; traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 11-September 7, 1980, and San Francisco, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, November 8, 1980-January 4, 1981. London, Royal Academy of Arts, "Art in the Eighteenth Century: The Glory of Venice," September 15-December 14, 1994, pp. 357 and 471, cat. 250 (ill.); Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, January 29-April 23, 1995.

    Publications

    Terisio Pignatti, I Disegni Veneziani del Settecento (Treviso, 1965), pp. 123, 215-16 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 90-91, no. 149, pl. 160. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th Through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 1E7

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Pietro Antonio Novelli / Italian, 1729-1804
    Date
    1779/91
    Medium
    Pen and black ink, watercolor, and brush and gray wash, with traces of black chalk (recto), and graphite (verso), on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    54.2 × 39.5 cm (21 3/8 × 15 9/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    drawings (visual works)
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt
    Accession no.
    1963.761

    Provenance

    Paul Joseph Sachs (1878-1965), Cambridge, Mass. [his stamp (Lugt 2091), verso, lower center, in black]. Sold by Victor Spark (died 1991), New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.

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    Open-access museum record · AT-00005011

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