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An Angel with a Book
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · late 1740s
Provenance
Ownership history
- Johann Dominik Bossi (died 1853), Munich; by descent to his daughter, Maria Theresa Caroline Bossi (died 1881), and her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (died 1881), Stuttgart [according to Knox 1980]; sold, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, March 27, 1882, to Dr. O. Eisenmann, Director of the Gallery at Cassel on behalf of Wilhelm Lübke (died 1893), Stuttgart [according to Knox 1980]; probably sold by the estate of Wilhelm Lübke to Joseph Baer & Sons, Frankfurt [according to Wendland’s oral history and Knox 1980]; sold by Joseph Baer & Sons, to Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano, after 1919 [according to Wedland’s oral history and Knox 1980]. Sold by A & R Ball, New York, to the Art Institute, 1942.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, p. 25, cat. 52, pl. IV, cat. by Carl O. Schniewind.
- Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Museum of Art, "The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Pirates," January 8- May 7, 1978, cat. 124.
- Springfield, Mass., Museum of Fine Arts, "The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Pirates," March 19-May 7, 1978.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 124, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Eighteenth Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985.
Literature
Published references
- Carl O. Schniewind, 1900-1957 Memorial Exhibition of Prints and Drawings (Chicago, 1958), no. 32.
- Otto Benesch, Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America (New York, 1947), p. 33, no. 33 (ill.).
- Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), pp. 51-52, no. 2B11.
- George Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings (Oxford, 1980), p. 275, no. M.555.
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