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The Liberation of Saint Peter

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Italian, 1696–1770

The Liberation of Saint Peter

1725–35

Medium pen, brush and brown ink and wash over black chalk on paper
Dimensions Overall: 17 1/16 x 11 7/16 in. (43.4 x 29 cm)
Object Number 1955.1465
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Liberation of Saint Peter, 1725–35, pen, brush and brown ink and wash over black chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1465

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. 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. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Detlev Baron von Hadeln.. Handzeichnung von G. B. Tiepolo.. Florence: Pantheon; Munich: K. Wolff.. 1927.. 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. Ganz, James A. "Old Masters in the Clark Collection, Part II: Prints and Drawings" The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 51015. 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.

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

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