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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World
    Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World, 1742/43. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00006032

    Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World

    by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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    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.

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    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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