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Currently not on display

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Venice, 1696 - Madrid, 1770

The Family of Oriental Peasant

Date ca. 1775
Materials and Techniques etching
Size(cm) 22.5 x 17.5
State 1st
Inscriptions Signed lower right: Tiepolo; Collector's mark on verso: BI
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1971-0006

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 1972.

Exhibition History

1997
Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April 1997 - 18 May 1997, cat. no. 73
2021
National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y2_53 | T2_56

Bibliography

1847
Nagler, Georg Kaspar. Künstler-Lexikon. München, 1847, no. 12.
1906
De Vesme, Alexandre. Le peinture-graveur italien. Milano, 1906, no. 27.
1910
Sack, E. Giambattista und Domenico Tiepolo. Hamburg, 1910, no. 15.
1921
Hind, Arthur Mayger. The etchings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Print-Collector's Quarterly. vol. 8, April 1921, no. 27.
1941
Mostra degli incisori veneti del Settecento (cat. exh.). Pallucchini, Rodolfo, ed. Ridotto, Venezia, 28 June - 30 September, 1941. Venezia, Libreria serenissima, 1941, no. 315.
1952
Pittaluga, M. Acquafortisti veneziani del Settecento. Firenze, 1952, p. 145.
1965
Pignatti, T. Le acqueforti dei Tiepolo. Firenze, 1965, XXVII.
1970
Tiepolo, a Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770-1970 (exh. cat.). Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1970, no. 17.
1971
Rizzi, Aldo. L'opera grafica di Tiepolo: Le acqueforti. Venezia, 1971, no. 18.
1973
Bulletin Annuel du Musée National d’Art Occidental. No.6 (1971), 1973, Nouvelles acquisitions (catalogue). pp.10-11, repr.
2021
When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 91, 180, cat. no. Y2_53 | T2_56, col. repr.

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