The Annunciation

1730–33

Medium	pen, brush and brownk ink, and brown wash over black chalk on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 17 x 11 3/4 in. (43.2 x 29.9 cm)
Object Number	1955.1456
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Annunciation, 1730–33, pen, brush and brownk ink, and brown wash over black chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1456

Select Bibliography

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. 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. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967.

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. 75{illustrated}); Knoedler, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1920).