Studies of an Arm and Hands

between 1742 and 1757

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Italian, 1696-1770

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Title Studies of an Arm and Hands

Artwork Date between 1742 and 1757

Artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Life Dates 1696-1770

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on buff laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 9 1/16 × 7 7/8 inches (23 × 20 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Bequest of John S. Newberry

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 65.183.B

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possibly Algarotti. Library of the Sommasco Convent (Santa Maria della Salute) (Venice, Italy)

Leopoldo Cicognara (Venice, Italy)

Antonio Canova (Venice, Italy)

Mons. Canova (Venice, Italy)

Francesco Pesaro (Venice, Italy)

1842, Edward Cheney (Venice, Italy)

April 29, 1885, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) no. 1024

E. Parsons and Sons (London, England)

Earl of Ranfurly (Dublin, Ireland)

P. & D. Colnaghi (London, England)

Richard Owen (Paris, France)

Count Contini-Bonacossi (Florence, Italy)

Schaeffer Galleries (New York, New York, USA)

John S. Newberry (New York, New York, USA)

1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Drawings--Continuous Line. Exh. cat., Schaeffer Galleries. New York, 1952, no. 16.

Elam, Charles H., ed. The John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 84 (ill.).

Fifty-one Watercolors and Drawings: The John S. Newberry Collection. Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1962, no. 71.

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 126-127, no. 61.

Rearick, Janet Cox. Canaletto. Exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center and Charles E. Slatkin Gallery. Wellesley and New York, 1960, no. 57.

"Review of Schaeffer Gallery Exhibition." Art News (May 1952): p. 42 (ill.).

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. 77.

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