id: 127806 accession number: 1950.449 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.449 updated: 2023-04-25 11:42:53.222000 The Last Communion of St. Jerome, c. 1726. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk heightened with lead white; sheet: 55.2 x 40.8 cm (21 3/4 x 16 1/16 in.); secondary support: 55.2 x 40.8 cm (21 3/4 x 16 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Edward B. Greene 1950.449 title: The Last Communion of St. Jerome title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1726 creation date earliest: 1721 creation date latest: 1731 current location: creditline: Gift of Edward B. Greene copyright: --- culture: Italy, 18th century technique: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk heightened with lead white department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 55.2 x 40.8 cm (21 3/4 x 16 1/16 in.); Secondary Support: 55.2 x 40.8 cm (21 3/4 x 16 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid paper, laid down on beige(2) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: VERSO, center right, in graphite: Marge blanche / plat [underlined] ; lower right, in brown ink: Cabinet de Julien de parme et de N. / J. B. Tiepolo invt fecit translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). 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: Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770 - 1970 opening date: 1970-03-14T05:00:00 Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770 - 1970. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (March 14-May 3, 1970). title: The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates opening date: 1978-01-08T05:00:00 The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (organizer) (January 8-February 19, 1978); Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, OH, Springfield, OH (March 19-May 7, 1978). 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: Tiepolo and his Circle: Drawings in American Collections opening date: 1996-10-12T00:00:00 Tiepolo and his Circle: Drawings in American Collections. HUAM, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA (October 12-December 15, 1996); The Morgan Library & Museum (January 17-April 13, 1997). title: Conserving the Past for the Future opening date: 2001-03-04T00:00:00 Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Birmingham (Ala.) Museum of Art, The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates (1978), no. 36, illus. * CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; Mar. 16, 1971- (Gallery F remained open)). * Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770-1970 (Mar. 14-May 3, 1970), illus. p. 10. (also, first, to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, or only sent there for photo (Jan. 22, 1970) and then shipped to the Fogg??--see notebook file) * CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (installed Feb. 8, 1966). * CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Apr. 1, 1963). * CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Sep. 19-Nov. 5, 1962). * CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 7-Apr. 26, 1962). * CMA, "End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director's Corridor in Old Bldg." (closed Mar. 13, 1957). * CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953). * CMA, Exhibition of Representative Gifts and Bequests through 35 Years (June 19-Sept. 23, 1951). * CMA, installed with other most important 1950 accessions April 8, 1950, for trustees viewing. --- PROVENANCE Jean Antoine Julien (called Julien de Parme) (Lugt 1403, verso, lower right, in brown ink). Albert Meyer, Paris (according to Cambridge and New York, 1996, p. 52); [Galerie Charpentier, Paris] (according to Cambridge and New York, 1996, p. 51). [Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc.] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” June 1, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0020 Aikema, Bernard. Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996. page number: Mentioned: p.52; Reproduced: p.53 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.449/1950.449_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.449/1950.449_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.449/1950.449_full.tif