Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John
12 x 8 3/8 inches (306 x 213 mm)
Pen and black ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
1982.97
Gift of Mrs. Rudolf J. Heinemann in memory of Dr. Rudolph J. Heinemann.
Notes
Watermark: none.
In the opposite direction of the sheet, there is a faint black chalk sketch of a head.
Not long before his departure for Spain, Giambattista Tiepolo created a series of about seventy variations on the theme of the Holy Family. When the artist left for Madrid, he seems to have entrusted the drawings to his eldest son, Giuseppe Maria, who belonged to the convent of the Somaschi at Santa Maria della Salute, Venice. The drawings were sold in the nineteenth century and thereafter dispersed. This sheet is somewhat unusual in that it includes St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin, rather than Mary's husband, St. Joseph. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
In the opposite direction of the sheet, there is a faint black chalk sketch of a head.
Not long before his departure for Spain, Giambattista Tiepolo created a series of about seventy variations on the theme of the Holy Family. When the artist left for Madrid, he seems to have entrusted the drawings to his eldest son, Giuseppe Maria, who belonged to the convent of the Somaschi at Santa Maria della Salute, Venice. The drawings were sold in the nineteenth century and thereafter dispersed. This sheet is somewhat unusual in that it includes St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin, rather than Mary's husband, St. Joseph. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Associated names
Cicognara, Leopoldo, conte, 1767-1834, former owner.
Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822, former owner.
Pesaro, Francesco, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Owen, Richard, former owner.
Gentili, Federico, former owner.
Heinemann, Rudolf J., former owner.
Heinemann, Lore, former owner.
Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822, former owner.
Pesaro, Francesco, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Owen, Richard, former owner.
Gentili, Federico, former owner.
Heinemann, Rudolf J., former owner.
Heinemann, Lore, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p.
Aikema, Bernard. Tiepolo and His Circle : Drawings in American Collections. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Art Museum ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1996, no. 85, repr.
Aikema, Bernard. Tiepolo and His Circle : Drawings in American Collections. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Art Museum ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1996, no. 85, repr.
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