Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
A Man Being Led into Prison. Verso: Joachim and the Angel
16 1/16 x 11 1/16 inches (409 x 282 mm)
Pen and brown ink, with brown and gray wash, over black chalk, on paper; verso: pen and brown ink, with brown wash.
1979.61
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: Possibly "AM" with trefoil on stick.
Preparatory study for the altarpiece "Education of the Virgin", in the church of Santa Maria della Fava, Venice, completed in 1732.
Preparatory study for the altarpiece "Education of the Virgin", in the church of Santa Maria della Fava, Venice, completed in 1732.
Associated names
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the Janos Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 134, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 219.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 219.
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