About the Artwork
God the Father Borne by Angels
ca. 1759
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727-1804
Italian
Unknown
Pen and black ink and gray and brown washes on cream laid paper
Sheet: 7 3/16 × 9 5/8 inches (18.2 × 24.4 cm) Framed: 16 3/4 × 19 3/8 × 1 inches (42.5 × 49.2 × 2.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of John S. Newberry
47.99
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown-black ink, lower right: Domo. Tiepolo f Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper left: 239 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, center right: 3
Watermark: [indecipherable]
Provenance
Dr. Fr. Haussmann (New York, New York, USA)
1947, Schaeffer Galleries (New York, New York, USA)
John S. Newberry (Grosse Pointe Farms. Michigan, USA)
1947-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Byam Shaw, James. The Drawings of Dominico Tiepolo. ed. Karl Theodore Parker. London, 1962, p. 32, n. 5.
"Drawings." Schaeffer Galleries Bulletin 4 (1948): no. 26.
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp.130-131, no. 63.
Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1950, no. 51.
Miami Art Center. Art in Italy. Exh. cat., Miami 1969, n. 45.
Richardson, E.P. Venice 1700-1800: An Exhibition of Venice and the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and John Heron Art Museum. Detroit and Indianapolis, 1952, no. 80.
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, God the Father Borne by Angels, ca. 1759, pen and black ink and gray and brown washes on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of John S. Newberry, 47.99.
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