Fantasy on the Death of Seneca by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
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Fantasy on the Death of Seneca

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1735/40

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Gustave Deloye (died 1899), Paris [Lugt 756]; sold, Paris, June 12-15, 1899, lot 132. Ferdinand Roybet (died 1920), Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 14-16, 1920, lot 25. Lucien Guiraud (died 1954), Paris, by 1952 [Paris 1952]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 14-16, 1956, lot 68. Sold by M. Knoedler and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1959.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, Galeris Cailleux, "Tiepolo et Guardi," 1952, cat. 22.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Isntitute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 16, pl. 9.
  • Cambridge, Mass., The Fogg Museum, "Tiepolo, A Bicentenary Exhibition," March 14-May 3, 1970, cat. 16.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 30-31, cat. 14 (ill.), by Harold Joachim.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 116, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "18th Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 56-57, cat. 19 (ill.), by Martha Tedeschi.

Literature

Published references

  • Harold Joachim, "A Late Tiepolo Drawing," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 54 (February 4, 1960), pp. 18-19, (ill.).
  • George Knox, "A Group of Tiepolo Drawings Owned and Engraved by Pietro Monaco," Master Drawings (1965), no. 4, 309 ff.
  • Antonio Morassi, "Sui Disegni del Tiepolo nelle Recenti Mostre di Cambridge Mass. e di Stoccarda," Arte Veneta, 24 (1970), p. 296.
  • John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), pp. 148-149 (ill.).
  • Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings from the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings from the 17th Through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), no. 2B1.
  • Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26:1 (2000), pp. 5-15, fig. 4.

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