The Flight into Egypt

c. 1750–60

Medium	pen, brush and brown ink and wash, over red chalk on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 9 5/8 x 8 1/16 in. (24.4 x 20.4 cm)
Object Number	1955.1466
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Flight into Egypt, c. 1750–60, pen, brush and brown ink and wash, over red chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1466

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Fifteen: Italian Paintings and Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1961. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Detlev Baron von Hadeln.. Handzeichnung von G. B. Tiepolo.. Florence: Pantheon; Munich: K. Wolff.. 1927.. Knox, George. "The Orloff Album of Tiepolo Drawings." The Burlington Magazine 103, no. 699 (Special Issue in Honor of Professor Johannes Wilde, December 1961): 269–75. Kern, Steven, et al. The Clark: Selections from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Provenance

Probably Edward Cheney, London (1803–1884); in that case: Library of the Sommascho Convent; S. Maria della Salute, Venice (given by a son of Tiepolo, probably Guiseppe Maria Tiepolo, a priest in the Church of S. Maria della Salute); Cicognara (1810); Canova; Mons. Canova; Francesco Pesaro; Gregory Cheney (1852); Prince Alexis Orloff, Paris (sale Paris, Georges Petit, April 29–30, 1920, no. 91 {illustrated}); Knoedler, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1920).