Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness

1725–35

Medium	pen, brush and brown ink and wash over black chalk on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 16 9/16 x 11 1/8 in. (42 x 28.2 cm)
Object Number	1955.1467
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness, 1725–35, pen, brush and brown ink and wash over black chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1467

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Fifteen: Italian Paintings and Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1961. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums. Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections. Oct. 12-Dec. 15, 1996; New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, Jan. 17-April 13, 1997. Cat. by Bernard Aikema. Knox, George. "The Orloff Album of Tiepolo Drawings." The Burlington Magazine 103, no. 699 (Special Issue in Honor of Professor Johannes Wilde, December 1961): 269–75. Faison, S. Lane, Jr. The Art Museums of New England: Massachusetts. Vol. 2. Revised edition of Faison, Guide to the Art Museums of New England, 1958. Godine Guide 3. Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1986. Knobler, Nathan. The Visual Dialogue. 2nd ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. 3rd edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. 4th edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1995. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997. Rathus, Lois Fichner. Understanding Art, 6th ed.. Fort Worth (TX): Harcourt College Publishers. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.

Provenance

Probably Edward Cheney, London (1803–1884); in that case: Library of the Sommascho Convent; S. Maria della Salute, Venice (given by a son of Tiepolo, probably Guiseppe Maria Tiepolo, a priest in the Church of S. Maria della Salute); Cicognara (1810); Canova; Mons. Canova; Francesco Pesaro; Gregory Cheney (1852); Prince Alexis Orloff, Paris (sale Paris, Georges Petit, April 29–30, 1920, no. 116 {illustrated; dimensions incorrect}); Knoedler, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1920).