The Holy Family, Saint Joseph with a Book

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Prints and Drawings

1750–59

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696–1770

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Title: The Holy Family, Saint Joseph with a Book
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.: 1750–1759
Medium: Pen and brown iron gall ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk (recto) and black chalk (verso) on off-white laid paper, tipped on to ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower center on mount, in graphite: "19"
Dimensions: Primary support: 27.7 × 19.9 cm (10 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 30.1 × 22.1 cm (11 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2012.94
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George Knox, “The Orloff Album of Tiepolo Drawings,”Burlington Magazine (June 1961), pp. 269–75, fig. 104.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 66, cat. 37 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings,” Dec. 11, 1998–Mar. 28, 1999, checklist 27.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 66, cat. 37 (ill.).

Prince Alexis Orloff; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Apr. 29–30, 1920, lot 84, to “Pauline,” probably Richard Owen; Tomás Harris. Sold, Sotheby’s London, July 2, 1984, lot 123, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.

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