
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006032Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World
Provenance
Artaria and Co., Vienna. Dr. Gottfried Eissler (1862–1924), Vienna, 1910; sold, Vienna, May 6–7, 1925, lot 150. Private collection, Switzerland. Eugene Victor Thaw, New York. Peter Jay Sharp; sold, Salamander Fine Arts, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Sept. 20, 2006 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
New York, National Academy of Design, Master Drawings from the Collection of Peter Jay Sharp, 1994, cat. 28. Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 20, 2011, cat. 36 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Feb. 19–June 6, 2021 and Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.
Publications
Eduard Sack, Giambattista und Domenico Tiepolo (H.v. Clarmanns, 1910), no. 984, pl. 294. Terisio Pignatti, Le acqueforti dei Tiepolo (Nuova Italia, 1965), under no. 34. Antonio Morassi, “Antonio Guardi as Draughtsman,” Master Drawings 6 (1968), p. 141 n. 5. Terisio Pignatti, "In margine alla mostra dei acqueforti dei Tiepolo Udine,” Arte veneta 24 (1970), p. 308. Aldo Rizzi, Le acqueforti dei Tiepolo, exh. cat. (Loggia del Lionello, 1970), under cat. 24, fig. 23. Aldo Rizzi, The Etchings of the Tiepolos (Phaidon, 1971), under cat. 25, fig. 25. George Knox, "G.B. Tiepolo: The Dating of the 'Scherzi di Fantasia' and the 'Capricci',” Burlington Magazine 114 (Dec. 1972), p. 842 (as Francesco Loreenzi, after Giambattista Tieoplo). George Knox, Catalogue of the Tiepolo Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2nd ed. (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1975), p. 63, under no. 119 (as Francesco Lorenzi). Antonio Morassi, Guardi: Tutti i disegni di Antonio Francesco, e Giacomo Guardi (Alfieri, 1975), p. 88, under no. 49. George Knox, "Francesco Guardi in the Studio of Giambattista Tiepolo", unpublished article, 1994 (as Giambattista Tiepolo). George Knox, "Francesco Guardi in the Studio of Giambattista Tiepolo and a Note on the Dating of the 'Solennià Dogali,'" in I Guardi: vedute, capricci, feste, disegni e quadri turcheschi (Marsilio, 2002), p. 89, fig. 90.
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
- 1742/43
- Medium
- Black chalk, with pen and black and brown ink and brush and various brown washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 40.5 × 27.2 cm (16 × 10 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.96
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