The Christ Child
Artist
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696 - 1770
Dateca. 1767-1769
Place of OriginItaly
Mediumchalk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 8 x 11 3/8 in. (20.3 x 28.9 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 15 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (38.7 x 46.4 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 15 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (38.7 x 46.4 cm)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Pruyn Hyde
Object number1971.80
On View
Not on viewCollections
- Works on Paper
InscribedOn verso: "CM" crossed out with three horizontal lines, "No. 3316" in ink, and "699" in pencil.
MarkingsWatermark: "MW."
Exhibition History"Tiepolo Bicentenary Exhibition," Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 13- May 3, 1970. Birmingham Museum of Art, Jan. 8- Feb. 19, 1978.
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, March 19- May 7, 1978.
"The Painterly and the Picturesque: Trends in Eighteenth Century European Art", Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, Sept. 23- Dec. 30, 2001.
"Drawn from Life and Legend: European Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection," Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, May 19- Sept. 23, 2007.
"Celebrating 60 Years: The Collector Charlotte Pruyn Hyde," Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, May 6-Sept. 17, 2023.Provenanceby 1947, Glens Falls, NY, Mrs. Charlotte P. Hyde
1963, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust (Bequest of Charlotte P. Hyde)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
ca. 1755