Rest on the Flight into Egypt

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1760

Giambattista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696-1770

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giambattista Tiepolo
Title: Rest on 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.: 1750–1770
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash, with black chalk, on ivory laid paper, tipped on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 28.5 × 20.8 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Reference Number: 1968.311
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Ugo Ojetti, Settecento Italiano, vol. I (Milan, 1932), no. 289 (ill.).
Anna Pallucchini, Giambattista Tiepolo (Milan, 1971), p. 28, pl. 63.
Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), pl. 128, p. 80, no. 120.
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), pp. 49-50, no. 2B5.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1974, cat. 16, by Harold Joachim.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “151 Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago,” 1979-1980, pp. 80 and 171, cat. 120, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Eighteenth Century Venetian Drawings,” January 11-May 5, 1985.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983,” July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 60-61, cat. 21 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.

Possibly Edward Cheney, London; sold, Sotheby’s, London, May 5, 1885 [according to Chicago 1974]. Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Rome, by 1932 [according to Ojetti 1932]. Given by Samuel H. Kress to Mrs. Delora Kilvert, New York [according to Audrey de Ayala as stated in correspondence from Gerald Stiebel dated February 7, 2004 in curatorial file]; by descent to her daughter, Audrey de Ayala [according to correspondence with Gerald Stiebel]; sold to Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York [according to correspondence with Gerald Stiebel]; sold to the Art Institute, 1968.

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