Faith Overcoming Heresy (recto); Tracing after Faith Overcoming Heresy (verso)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1779/91

Pietro Antonio Novelli
Italian, 1729-1804

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pietro Antonio Novelli
Title: Faith Overcoming Heresy (recto); Tracing after Faith Overcoming Heresy (verso)
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1779–1791
Medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor, and brush and gray wash, with traces of black chalk (recto), and graphite (verso), on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 54.2 × 39.5 cm (21 3/8 × 15 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt
Reference Number: 1963.761
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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

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.

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.

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