id: 123965 accession number: 1944.474 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.474 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:59.592000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1740 creation date earliest: 1735 creation date latest: 1745 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 38.7 x 28.5 cm (15 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(1) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: verso, lower left, in graphite: [T?]. 5533; lower right, in graphite: [J?] translation: remark: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE G. Déloye (Gustave Déloye) [1838-1899], Paris (inscribed with initials, lower right, in brown ink, similar to Lugt 756). date: ?-1898 footnotes: citations: Adoration of the Magi in Déloye collection sold (see H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des Ventes d'Art (Paris, 1911), 7:183). date: 1898 footnotes: citations: (Richard H. Zinser, New York, purchased by The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dec. 1944.) date: ?-1944 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. date: 1944- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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. url: Rizzi, Aldo. Disegni del Tiepolo. Udine: Loggia del Lionello, 1965. page number: Mentioned: p. 63 under no. 17 url: 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 url: Russell, Helen Diane. Rare Etchings by Giovanni Battisita and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 28 url: 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 url: Succi, Dario. Giambattista Tiepolo: il segno e l’enigma. Gorizia, Italy: Vianello Libri/Foligraf, 1985. page number: Mentioned: p. 40 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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. url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.474/1944.474_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.474/1944.474_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.474/1944.474_full.tif