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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Joseph and Mary Passing a Shepherd and His Flock, ca. 1753
etching printed in black ink on laid paper
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Artist Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727-1804
Title
  • Joseph and Mary Passing a Shepherd and His Flock
  • The Flight, Holy Family at the Right, Joseph Looking to the Left (alternate title)
  • Flight Into Egypt (series title)
Date ca. 1753
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 7 1/2 × 9 5/8 inches (19.1 × 24.4 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 12 3/4 inches (24.1 × 32.4 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S1150.3
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed, in plate, lower left of image: Domeo: Tiepolo | invo. et inc.
Marks Stamp, in purple, verso: J. PEOLI. (Lugt 2020)
Stamp, verso: Scripps (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, center lower edge of image: 11
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner of sheet: 1150a
Inscribed, lower right corner: -5-
Inscribed, in black ink, verso: BGR
May 1894, J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA).
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Russell, D. H. Rare Etchings by Giovanni Battista and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1972, p. 99, nos. 72 and 73.