id: 110929 accession number: 1929.443 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.443 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:14.068000 Flight into Egypt: The Embarkment of the Holy Family, c. 1735. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in black chalk; sheet: 30 x 44.7 cm (11 13/16 x 17 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.443 title: Flight into Egypt: The Embarkment of the Holy Family title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1735 creation date earliest: 1730 creation date latest: 1740 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 18th century technique: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in black chalk department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 30 x 44.7 cm (11 13/16 x 17 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(1) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: upper left, in black chalk: [851?] [sideways] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830 opening date: 1932-12-07T05:00:00 Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933). title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00 Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). title: Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America opening date: 1935-01-01T05:00:00 Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (January 1-31, 1935). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1937-05-28T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937). title: Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London opening date: 1938-09-30T05:00:00 Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 30-October 30, 1938). title: Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1939-01-04T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939). title: Drawings by Old Italian Masters opening date: 1940-06-05T04:00:00 Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1941-03-04T05:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1942-06-17T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Italian and French Drawings opening date: 1959-10-13T04:00:00 Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: European Watercolors Through the 18th Century opening date: 1964-01-14T05:00:00 European Watercolors Through the 18th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 14-March 22, 1964). title: Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands opening date: 1965-01-01T05:00:00 Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965). title: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). title: Italian Prints and Drawings opening date: 1968-01-30T05:00:00 Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968). title: Drawings opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). title: Brush Drawings opening date: 1981-03-03T05:00:00 Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-May 10, 1981). title: The Tiepolos and Their World opening date: 1981-10-06T04:00:00 The Tiepolos and Their World. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 6-November 22, 1981). title: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). title: Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1986-12-16T05:00:00 Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (dates? 1970?).', 'opening_date': '1970-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (installed Feb. 8, 1966).', 'opening_date': '1966-02-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Apr. 1, 1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-01-11T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Sep. 19-Nov. 5, 1962).[?]', 'opening_date': '1962-09-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 7-Apr. 26, 1962).', 'opening_date': '1962-03-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition (Mar. 3, 1958-Oct. 11, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1958-03-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director\'s Corridor in Old Bldg." (closed Mar. 13, 1957).', 'opening_date': '1957-03-13T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, The Life of the Virgin (Dec. 7, 1954-Jan. 2, 1955).', 'opening_date': '1954-12-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953).', 'opening_date': '1953-01-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Detroit Institute of Arts; Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, An Exhibition of the Venetian Eighteenth Century (Sep. 30-Nov. 2; Nov. 15-Dec. 31, 1952).', 'opening_date': '1952-11-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Detroit Institute of Arts, Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums (June 1-Sep. 15, 1950).', 'opening_date': '1950-06-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "CMA (removed from director's corridor May 10, 1950; rehung Jan. 8, 1951?).", 'opening_date': '1950-05-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Apr. 8, 1949- ).', 'opening_date': '1949-04-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of the Berlin Paintings (Jan. 11-Mar. 27, 1949).', 'opening_date': '1949-01-11T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May. 14, 1946- ).', 'opening_date': '1946-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (July 27, 1944- ).', 'opening_date': '1944-07-27T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 29, 1943-July 27, 1944).', 'opening_date': '1943-06-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 17-Oct. 4, 1942).', 'opening_date': '1942-06-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Oct. 28, 1941-May 31, 1942).', 'opening_date': '1941-10-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA (removed from gallery II Oct. 27, 1941).', 'opening_date': '1941-10-27T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 4-Apr., 1941).', 'opening_date': '1941-04-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Drawings by Old Italian Masters from the Collection (June 5, 1940-Feb. 25, 1941).', 'opening_date': '1940-06-05T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 4-Mar. 26, 1939).', 'opening_date': '1939-01-04T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London, Supplemented by Drawings from the Collection (Oct. 1-30, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1930-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-06-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico (Feb. 4-Mar. 6, 1938), no. 51, illus.', 'opening_date': '1938-02-04T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "40 Drawings from the Museum Collection" (May 28-Nov. 7, 1937).', 'opening_date': '1937-05-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Laces and Drawings from the Museum Collection (Dec. 16, 1936-Jan. 3, 1937).', 'opening_date': '1936-12-16T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May 21-Dec. 13, 1936).', 'opening_date': '1936-05-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections (July 10-Sep. 15, 1935).', 'opening_date': '1935-07-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America (Jan., 1935), no. 66, illus.', 'opening_date': '1935-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Nov. 8-Dec. 7, 1934).', 'opening_date': '1934-11-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Exhibition of Lace, Drawings, and Furniture (July 11-Sep. 3. 1934).', 'opening_date': '2011-07-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings of the Period Shown with the Louise Tifft Brown Lace Bequest" (Dec. 12, 1933-Jan. 1, 1934).', 'opening_date': '1933-12-12T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from 1630 to 1830 in the Classic and Romantic Tradition (Dec. 7, 1932-Jan. 11, 1933).', 'opening_date': '1932-12-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA (Jan. 6, 1930-Dec. 1, 1932).', 'opening_date': '1930-01-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'London, Magnasco Society (1927), no. 44.', 'opening_date': '1927-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Two Drawings by Tiepolo." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 1 (January 1930): 4-7 page number: Mentioned: p. 4-7; Reproduced: p. 15 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137266 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Gordon Bailey Washburn, and Agnes Mongan. Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America; January, 1935, the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. [Buffalo, N.Y.]: [F.W. Burow], 1935. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 66 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 574 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n107 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 144 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n168 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 144 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n168 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 144 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n164 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.443/1929.443_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.443/1929.443_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.443/1929.443_full.tif