Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World

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1742/43

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696–1770

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Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Title: Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World
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.: Made 1742–1743
Medium: Black chalk, with pen and black and brown ink and brush and various brown washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 40.5 × 27.2 cm (16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2022.96
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Eduard Sack, Giambattista und Domenico Tiepolo (H.v. Clarmanns, 1910), no. 984, pl. 294.
Terisio Pignatti, Le acqueforti dei Tiepolo (Nuova Italia, 1965), under no. 34.
Antonio Morassi, “Antonio Guardi as Draughtsman,” Master Drawings 6 (1968), p. 141 n. 5.
Terisio Pignatti, “In margine alla mostra dei acqueforti dei Tiepolo Udine,” Arte veneta 24 (1970), p. 308.
Aldo Rizzi, Le acqueforti dei Tiepolo, exh. cat. (Loggia del Lionello, 1970), under cat. 24, fig. 23.
Aldo Rizzi, The Etchings of the Tiepolos (Phaidon, 1971), under cat. 25, fig. 25.
George Knox, “G.B. Tiepolo: The Dating of the ‘Scherzi di Fantasia’ and the ‘Capricci’,” Burlington Magazine 114 (Dec. 1972), p. 842 (as Francesco Loreenzi, after Giambattista Tieoplo).
George Knox, Catalogue of the Tiepolo Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2nd ed. (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1975), p. 63, under no. 119 (as Francesco Lorenzi).
Antonio Morassi, Guardi: Tutti i disegni di Antonio Francesco, e Giacomo Guardi (Alfieri, 1975), p. 88, under no. 49.
George Knox, “Francesco Guardi in the Studio of Giambattista Tiepolo”, unpublished article, 1994 (as Giambattista Tiepolo).
George Knox, “Francesco Guardi in the Studio of Giambattista Tiepolo and a Note on the Dating of the ‘Solennià Dogali,’” in I Guardi: vedute, capricci, feste, disegni e quadri turcheschi (Marsilio, 2002), p. 89, fig. 90.

New York, National Academy of Design, Master Drawings from the Collection of Peter Jay Sharp, 1994, cat. 28.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 20, 2011, cat. 36 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Feb. 19–June 6, 2021 and Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.

Artaria and Co., Vienna. Dr. Gottfried Eissler (1862–1924), Vienna, 1910; sold, Vienna, May 6–7, 1925, lot 150. Private collection, Switzerland. Eugene Victor Thaw, New York. Peter Jay Sharp; sold, Salamander Fine Arts, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Sept. 20, 2006 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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