The Temptation of Saint Anthony

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1734

Giambattista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696-1770

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giambattista Tiepolo
Title: The Temptation of Saint Anthony
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.: 1720–1734
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk and traces of charcoal, heightened with touches of white gouache, on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, bottom edge, in pen and brown ink: "'vdi 4 Marzo 1760 Venezia / dal Sig(r) Davide Ant(o) Fosati o ricevuto io Pietro Monaco / zecchini tre e questo per pagamento del Presente / disegno originale de Sig(r) Gio. Batta. Tiepolo al 260'"
Dimensions: 40 × 24.7 cm (15 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Helen Regenstein Collection
Reference Number: 1964.347
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George Knox, “A Group of Tiepolo Drawings Owned and Engraved by Pietro Monaco,” Master Drawings, III: 4 (1965), pp. 389-397, fig. 4.
Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 78, no. 114, pl. 122.
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), pp. 46-47, no. 2A11.

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, “Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition,” March 14-May 3, 1970, cat. 11, by George Knox.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1974, pp. 28-29, cat. 13 (ill.), by Harold Joachim.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute,” 1979-1980, cat. 114, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “18th Century Venetian Drawings,” January 11-May 5, 1985.

Given by Davide Antonio Fosati to Pietro Monaco, Venice, March 4, 1760 [inscription]. Galerie Pardo, Paris, 1963 [Cambridge, Mass. 1970]. Leo Franklyn, London, 1964 [Cambridge, Mass. 1970]. Sold by Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1964.

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