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Adoration of the Shepherds
Provenance
Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 13, 1934, lot 50 (as School of Tiepolo). Duc de Talleyrand, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, by 1958 [Morassi 1958]. British Rail Pension Fund, probably by 1980 [according to W. M. Brady and Co. and Venice 1980 exh. cat.]. Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London, by 1991 [London 1991 exh. cat.]. Private collection, from 1991 [according to W. M. Brady and Co.]. Sold by W. M. Brady and Co., New York, to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, July 14, 2017; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Disegni veneti di collezioni inglesi, 1980, cat. 108 (ill.). Norwich, Castle Museum, Old Master Drawings from Venice, 1984–85, cat. 2. London, Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, Italian Drawings, 1991, cat. 20; also New York, Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, 1992. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp. 40-41, cat. 15, p. 137, GC 65, traveled to Berkeley, CA, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
Antonio Morassi, Dessins vénitiens du dix-huitième siècle de la collection du Duc de Talleyrand (D. Guarnati, 1958), p. 24, cat. 49 (ill.). Karl Theodore Parker, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (Clarendon Press, 1956), vol. 2, p. 201, under no. 997. Marina Magrini, “Francesco Fontebasso: I disegni,” Saggi e Memorie di storia dell’Arte no. 17 (1990), pp. 177, cat. no. 53; 369, fig. 110.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francesco Fontebasso / Italian, 1707–1769
- Date
- c. 1750
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and black ink, with black and red ink washes, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 46.4 × 33.5 cm (18 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.847
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