Faith Overcoming Heresy (recto); Tracing after Faith Overcoming Heresy (verso) by Pietro Antonio Novelli
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Faith Overcoming Heresy (recto); Tracing after Faith Overcoming Heresy (verso)

Pietro Antonio Novelli · 1779/91

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Paul Joseph Sachs (1878-1965), Cambridge, Mass. [his stamp (Lugt 2091), verso, lower center, in black]. Sold by Victor Spark (died 1991), New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Chicago, The Racquet Club, "Sale of Master Drawings from Five Centuries," 1963, cat. 96.
  • International Exhibitions Foundation, "Venetian Drawings," 1974-1975, cat. 115; traveled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Fort Worth Tex.,The Kimbell Art Museum, and the St. Louis Art Museum.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 149, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art.
  • Washington DC, The National Gallery of Art, "Italian Drawings 1780-1880," March 16, 1980-May 11, 1980; traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 11-September 7, 1980, and San Francisco, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, November 8, 1980-January 4, 1981.
  • London, Royal Academy of Arts, "Art in the Eighteenth Century: The Glory of Venice," September 15-December 14, 1994, pp. 357 and 471, cat. 250 (ill.); Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, January 29-April 23, 1995.

Literature

Published references

  • Terisio Pignatti, I Disegni Veneziani del Settecento (Treviso, 1965), pp. 123, 215-16 (ill.).
  • Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 90-91, no. 149, pl. 160.
  • Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th Through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 1E7

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