The Flight Into Egypt

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1735/40

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696–1770

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Title: The Flight Into Egypt
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.: 1725–1740
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on off-white laid paper
Dimensions: 42.7 × 29.8 cm (16 13/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Everett D. Graff
Reference Number: 1986.1615
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Galerie Cailleux, Tiepolo et Guardi dans les collections françaises (Paris, 1952), p. 76.
George Knox, “The Orloff Album of Tiepolo Drawings,” Burlington Magazine (June, 1961), pp. 269 and 273.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Eighteenth Century Venetian Drawings,” January 11-May 5, 1985.

Possibly Gregory Vladimirovitch Orloff (died 1826), Russia and Paris [Knox 1961]; possibly by descent to Prince Alexis Orloff, Paris [Knox 1961]. Sold, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, April 29-30, 1920, Orloff sale, lot 86. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 6, 1929, lot 124. Sold by Robert Lebel, Paris, to Everett Graff, Winnetka, Ill., July 9, 1957 [1986 appraisal in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1986.

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