The Last Communion of St. Jerome
c. 1726
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770)
Drawings
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
- Maker/Artist
- Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk heightened with lead white
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Inscribed
- 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
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1950.449
- Credit Line
- Gift of Edward B. Greene
- Exhibitions
- 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Italian and French Drawings, Drawings, Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770 - 1970, The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates, The Tiepolos and Their World, Tiepolo and his Circle: Drawings in American Collections, Conserving the Past for the Future, Birmingham (Ala.) Museum of Art, The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates (1978), no. 36, illus.<br><br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; Mar. 16, 1971- (Gallery F remained open)).<br><br>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)<br><br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (installed Feb. 8, 1966).<br><br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Apr. 1, 1963).<br><br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Sep. 19-Nov. 5, 1962).<br><br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 7-Apr. 26, 1962).<br><br>CMA, "End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director's Corridor in Old Bldg." (closed Mar. 13, 1957).<br><br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953).<br><br>CMA, Exhibition of Representative Gifts and Bequests through 35 Years (June 19-Sept. 23, 1951).<br><br>CMA, installed with other most important 1950 accessions April 8, 1950, for trustees viewing.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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