Apotheosis of an Aged Warrior, for a ceiling in the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice, 1696–1770)

Medium

Pen and brown ink and brown wash over sketch in black chalk

Dimensions

11 × 7 11/16 in. (27.9 × 19.6 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert Lehman, B.A. 1913

Accession Number

1941.295

Culture
Period

18th century

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Edward Cheney; sale Sotheby's London, 29 April 1885, presumably part of lot 1024; E. Parsons and Sons, London; Robert Lehman (gift to the museum)
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 134, 140, fig. 139
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Inscriptions

Annotated with graphite, reverse, C: "36[circled]", and at LL: "47"

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