The Young Virgin Accepts the Scarlet and the Pure Purple

c. 1770–90

Medium	pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 19 5/16 x 15 3/16 in. (49 x 38.5 cm)
Object Number	1955.1463
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, The Young Virgin Accepts the Scarlet and the Pure Purple, c. 1770–90, pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1463

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Gealt, Adelheid M. and George Knox. Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament. Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament. The Frick Collection, October 24, 2006-January 7, 2007. Indiana University Art Museum in Assoc. with Indiana University Press. 2006. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum.. Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman. Jan. 15-Mary 9, 1997. (Also at Udine Museu Sept. 14-Nov. 24, 1996, our drawings not lent) (Cat. by Adelheid Gealt, George Knox, Adriano Mariuz, Giuseppe Bergamini).. Electa.. J. Byam Shaw.. The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo.. London.. 1962.. 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.