Flight into Egypt: The Embarkment of the Holy Family
c. 1735
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770)
Drawings
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
- Maker/Artist
- Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in black chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 30 x 44.7 cm (11 13/16 x 17 5/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: upper left, in black chalk: [851?] [sideways]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1929.443
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830, Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London, Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings by Old Italian Masters, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, Italian and French Drawings, Drawings, European Watercolors Through the 18th Century, Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands, Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection, Italian Prints and Drawings, Drawings, Brush Drawings, The Tiepolos and Their World, National Schools of Style, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (dates? 1970?).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (installed Feb. 8, 1966).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Apr. 1, 1963).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Sep. 19-Nov. 5, 1962).[?]<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 7-Apr. 26, 1962).<br>CMA, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition (Mar. 3, 1958-Oct. 11, 1959).<br>CMA, "End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director's Corridor in Old Bldg." (closed Mar. 13, 1957).<br>CMA, The Life of the Virgin (Dec. 7, 1954-Jan. 2, 1955).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953).<br>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).<br>Detroit Institute of Arts, Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums (June 1-Sep. 15, 1950).<br>CMA (removed from director's corridor May 10, 1950; rehung Jan. 8, 1951?).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Apr. 8, 1949- ).<br>CMA, Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of the Berlin Paintings (Jan. 11-Mar. 27, 1949).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May. 14, 1946- ).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (July 27, 1944- ).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 29, 1943-July 27, 1944).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 17-Oct. 4, 1942).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Oct. 28, 1941-May 31, 1942).<br>CMA (removed from gallery II Oct. 27, 1941).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 4-Apr., 1941).<br>CMA, Drawings by Old Italian Masters from the Collection (June 5, 1940-Feb. 25, 1941).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 4-Mar. 26, 1939).<br>CMA, Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London, Supplemented by Drawings from the Collection (Oct. 1-30, 1938).<br>CMA, Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).<br>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.<br>CMA, "40 Drawings from the Museum Collection" (May 28-Nov. 7, 1937).<br>CMA, Laces and Drawings from the Museum Collection (Dec. 16, 1936-Jan. 3, 1937).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May 21-Dec. 13, 1936).<br>CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections (July 10-Sep. 15, 1935).<br>Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America (Jan., 1935), no. 66, illus.<br>CMA, Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Nov. 8-Dec. 7, 1934).<br>CMA, Exhibition of Lace, Drawings, and Furniture (July 11-Sep. 3. 1934).<br>CMA, "Drawings of the Period Shown with the Louise Tifft Brown Lace Bequest" (Dec. 12, 1933-Jan. 1, 1934).<br>CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from 1630 to 1830 in the Classic and Romantic Tradition (Dec. 7, 1932-Jan. 11, 1933).<br>CMA (Jan. 6, 1930-Dec. 1, 1932).<br>London, Magnasco Society (1927), no. 44.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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