Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005110The Flight Into Egypt
Provenance
Possibly Gregory Vladimirovitch Orloff (died 1826), Russia and Paris [Knox 1961]; possibly by descent to Prince Alexis Orloff, Paris [Knox 1961]. Sold, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, April 29-30, 1920, Orloff sale, lot 86. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 6, 1929, lot 124. Sold by Robert Lebel, Paris, to Everett Graff, Winnetka, Ill., July 9, 1957 [1986 appraisal in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1986.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Eighteenth Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985.
Publications
Galerie Cailleux, Tiepolo et Guardi dans les collections françaises (Paris, 1952), p. 76. George Knox, "The Orloff Album of Tiepolo Drawings," Burlington Magazine (June, 1961), pp. 269 and 273.
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
- 1735/40
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 42.7 × 29.8 cm (16 13/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Everett D. Graff
- Accession no.
- 1986.1615
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