Object Information
Giambattista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696-1770
Fantasy on the Death of Seneca, 1735/40
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
340 x 240 mm
Helen Regenstein Collection, 1959.36
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
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.
Publication History
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.
Ownership History
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.