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
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
ca. 1645-50