Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005794The Holy Family, Saint Joseph with a Book
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower center on mount, in graphite: "19"
Provenance
Prince Alexis Orloff; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Apr. 29–30, 1920, lot 84, to "Pauline," probably Richard Owen; Tomás Harris. Sold, Sotheby’s London, July 2, 1984, lot 123, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings," Dec. 11, 1998–Mar. 28, 1999, checklist 27. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 66, cat. 37 (ill.).
Publications
George Knox, “The Orloff Album of Tiepolo Drawings,”Burlington Magazine (June 1961), pp. 269–75, fig. 104. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 66, cat. 37 (ill.).
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
- 1750–59
- Medium
- Pen and brown iron gall ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk (recto) and black chalk (verso) on off-white laid paper, tipped on to ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 27.7 × 19.9 cm (10 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 30.1 × 22.1 cm (11 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2012.94
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