id:			161275
accession number:	1999.5
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.5
updated:		2025-09-13 18:35:58.959000

The Disrobing of Christ, c. 1785–90. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804). Pen and brown and black ink, brush and black, brown, and red-brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink; sheet: 47.9 x 38.2 cm (18 7/8 x 15 1/16 in.); image: 46.1 x 36.2 cm (18 1/8 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1999.5

title:				The Disrobing of Christ
title in original language:	
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creation date:			c. 1785–90
creation date earliest:		1785
creation date latest:		1790
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Italy, Venice, 18th century
technique:	pen and brown and black ink, brush and black, brown, and red-brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Italian
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 47.9 x 38.2 cm (18 7/8 x 15 1/16 in.); Image: 46.1 x 36.2 cm (18 1/8 x 14 1/4 in.)
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	description:	cream(1) laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, lower left, in brown ink: Dom' Tiepolo f
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. 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).

	title:		Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament
	opening date:   2006-10-24T00:00:00
	<i>Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament</i>. Frick Collection, New York, NY (organizer) (October 24, 2006-January 7, 2007).

	title:		Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2014-03-09T00:00:00
	<i>Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Victor Luzarches [1803-1869], Tours, France.
	date: ?-1869
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	Camille Rogier [1805-1893], Paris.
	date: After 1869-?
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	(Christie's, New York, January 13, 1993, no. 62, sold.)
	date: 1993
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	(Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc., New York.)
	date: 1993-?
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	Martin Kline [1961-], Rhinebeck, New York, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 1999.
	date: ?-1999
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
	date: 1999-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Guerlin, Henri. <em>Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo: au temps du Christ</em>. Tours: Alfred Mame et fils, 1921.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 81-82, pl. 81.
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	“Market results: Old Master Drawings.” <em>The Art Newspaper</em> (New York, NY), Feb. 1993.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 29.
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	Gealt, Adelheid M., George Knox, Giuseppe Bergamini, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. <em>Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman</em>. Milan: Electa, 1996.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 82, 175, no. 104
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	Gealt, Adelheid M. and George Knox. <em>Giandomenico Tiepolo: Maestria e Gioco, Disegni dal mondo.</em> Milan: Electa, 1996.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 82, 175 no. 104
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	Conrad, Christofer. “Die grossformatigen religiösen Zeichnungen Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.” Ph. D. diss. Université de Heidelberg, 1996.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 162
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Benin Bronze Plaque, Rembrandt Print, Other Works of Art Enter CMA Collection,” March 12, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
	page number: 	
	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4240

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 26, p. 11, pp. 11, 72-73, 286; Reproduced: p. 73
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	De Grazia, Dianne, "The Disrobing of Christ", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 40 no. 03, March 2000
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6-7
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2000-03/page/n5

	Gealt, Adelheid M., George Knox, and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.<em> Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament.</em> Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum in association with Indiana University Press, 2006.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 480-481, cat. no. 198
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