Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Constancy and Fame
8 1/8 x 10 3/8 inches (207 x 263 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk, on paper.
IV, 115
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: letter "B".
One of a series of 108 drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo from an album bearing the title, "TIEPOLO DESSINS ORIGINAUX", inscribed by Edward Cheney, "E.C. Venice 1852 May 31 / bought from the Conte Corniani Algarotti".
Upper corners diagonally cropped.
This characteristically sketchy sheet, datable not long before the artist's departure for Madrid, presents an alternative interpretation of the same theme as another sheet (inv. IV, 114), also in the Morgan's collection. Both may have been created as studies for a lost canvas that Giambattista Tiepolo painted in Venice during the late 1750s for the ceiling of an unknown building in St. Petersburg, Russia. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
One of a series of 108 drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo from an album bearing the title, "TIEPOLO DESSINS ORIGINAUX", inscribed by Edward Cheney, "E.C. Venice 1852 May 31 / bought from the Conte Corniani Algarotti".
Upper corners diagonally cropped.
This characteristically sketchy sheet, datable not long before the artist's departure for Madrid, presents an alternative interpretation of the same theme as another sheet (inv. IV, 114), also in the Morgan's collection. Both may have been created as studies for a lost canvas that Giambattista Tiepolo painted in Venice during the late 1750s for the ceiling of an unknown building in St. Petersburg, Russia. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Associated names
Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712-1764, former owner.
Algarotti, Bonomo, 1706-1776, former owner.
Algarotti-Corniani, Maria, former owner.
Corniani, Bernardino conte, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Cure, Alfred Capel, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Algarotti, Bonomo, 1706-1776, former owner.
Algarotti-Corniani, Maria, former owner.
Corniani, Bernardino conte, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Cure, Alfred Capel, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 115.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings from New York Collections III, The 18th Century in Italy, 1971, p. 63, no. 143, repr.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings from New York Collections III, The 18th Century in Italy, 1971, p. 63, no. 143, repr.
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