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accession number: 1944.474
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The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1740. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk; sheet: 38.7 x 28.5 cm (15 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1944.474
title: The Adoration of the Magi
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creation date: c. 1740
creation date earliest: 1735
creation date latest: 1745
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creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture: Italy, Venice, 18th century
technique: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Italian
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 38.7 x 28.5 cm (15 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
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description: cream(1) laid paper
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inscription: verso, lower left, in graphite: [T?]. 5533; lower right, in graphite: [J?]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Exhibition of the Month: Components of Art: The Line
opening date: 1948-02-12T05:00:00
Exhibition of the Month: Components of Art: The Line. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 12, 1948).
title: Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of Berlin Museum Paintings
opening date: 1949-01-11T05:00:00
Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of Berlin Museum Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-March 27, 1949).
title: Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts
opening date: 1949-09-30T04:00:00
Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-November 13, 1949).
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: 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: 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: Venice as City and Theater
opening date: 1985-02-27T05:00:00
Venice as City and Theater. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-April 21, 1985).
title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
G. Déloye (Gustave Déloye) [1838-1899], Paris (inscribed with initials, lower right, in brown ink, similar to Lugt 756).
date: ?-1898
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Adoration of the Magi in Déloye collection sold (see H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des Ventes d'Art (Paris, 1911), 7:183).
date: 1898
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(Richard H. Zinser, New York, purchased by The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dec. 1944.)
date: ?-1944
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
date: 1944-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Francis, Henry S. "’The Adoration of the Magi,’ a Drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 33, no. 1 (1946): 8-9.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 8-9, on cover.
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141250
Millier, Arthur. The Drawings of Tiepolo. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Co., 1956.
page number: Reproduced: p. 24 and on cover.
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Rizzi, Aldo. Disegni del Tiepolo. Udine: Loggia del Lionello, 1965.
page number: Mentioned: p. 63 under no. 17
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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
Knox, George. Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770-1970. Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1970.
page number: Mentioned: under no. 21
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Russell, Helen Diane. Rare Etchings by Giovanni Battisita and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1972.
page number: Mentioned: p. 28
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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
Dreyer, Peter. Kupferstichkabinett Berlin: Italienische Zeichnungen. Stuttgart: Belser Verlag, 1979.
page number: Mentioned: under no. 74
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Succi, Dario. Giambattista Tiepolo: il segno e l’enigma. Gorizia, Italy: Vianello Libri/Foligraf, 1985.
page number: Mentioned: p. 40
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Miller, Michael J. Drawing: A Glossary of Materials. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1986.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 13, 14, 17
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Bean, Jacob. 100 European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990.
page number: Mentioned: under no. 41
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Bean, Jacob and William Griswold. 18th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990.
page number: Mentioned: p. 200 under no. 190.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 109
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n123
Stanford University Museum of Art and Lorenz Eitner et. al. The Drawing Collection. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993.
page number: Mentioned pp. 138-40
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Martineau, Jane, and Andrew Robison. The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1994.
page number: Mentioned: p. 498 under no. 109
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 64-65; p. 286, cat. no. 22; Reproduced: p. 65
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