Three Angels Appearing to Abraham

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1726

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696–1770

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Title: Three Angels Appearing to Abraham
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.: 1723–1733
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 43.1 × 28.5 cm (17 × 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Collection
Reference Number: 1970.41
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George Knox, “A Group of Tiepolo Drawings Owned and Engraved by Pietro Monaco,” Master Drawings (1965), no. 4.
Anna Pallucchini, Giambattista Tiepolo (Milan, 1971), pl. 15, p. 18.
Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London), 1979, pp. 77-78, pl. 121, no. 113.
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 2A10.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake,” April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 16 (ill.).
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, “Venetian Drawings from American Collections,” September 21, 1974-April 20, 1975, cat. 66; also traveled to Fort Worth, the Kimbell Art Museum; and the St. Louis Art Museum.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” 1979-1980, cat. 113, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also 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. 54-55, cat. 18 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the Saint Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Art Museums, “Tiepolo and His Circle; Drawings in American Collections,” October 12-December 15, 1996, p. 60, cat. 18 (ill.), by Bernard Aikema; traveled to New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, January 13-April 13, 1997.

Vicomte Jacques de Canson, Paris [invoice]. Germain Seligman (1893-1978), New York [stamp]; sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1970.

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