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Nov 9, 2010

The Head of a Young Man Looking Upwards to the Right

before 1752

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

(Italian, 1696–1770)

Italy, 18th century

Red chalk (with stumping) over black chalk, heightened with white chalk

Support: Blue laid paper, laid down on cream-yellow wove paper, laid down on a tertiary support of wove paper (partially scraped away)

Sheet: 22.2 x 15.3 cm (8 3/4 x 6 in.); Secondary Support: 22.2 x 15.3 cm (8 3/4 x 6 in.)

The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1929.558

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, center, in graphite: [b?] ; VERSO OF TERTIARY SUPPORT, lower right, in graphite: 2 / B

Provenance

William Bateson, London (Lugt 2604a, lower left, in black ink); his sale [Sotheby's, London, 29 April, 1929, no. 112] (Knox, 1980, p. 212, no. M.23); [Thomas Agnew & Sons]

Exhibition history

CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).

CMA, National Schools of Style (June 14-Sept. 18, 1983).

CMA, The Tiepolos and Their World (Oct. 6-Nov. 22, 1981).

CMA, Italian Prints and Drawings (Jan. 30-Mar. 26, 1968).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (installed Feb. 8, 1966).

CMA, Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection (May 6-Sep. 9, 1965).

CMA, Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands (Jan. 14-Mar. 24, 1965).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Sep. 10, 1963).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Sep. 19-Nov. 5, 1962).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 7-Apr. 26, 1962).

CMA, Italian and French Drawings (Oct. 13, 1959-Feb. 2, 1960).

CMA, "End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director's Corridor in Old Bldg." (closed Mar. 13, 1957).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 30-Dec. 8, 1950; rehung Jan. 8, 1951, "with small changes").

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Apr. 8, 1949- ).

CMA, Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of the Berlin Paintings (Jan. 11-Mar. 27, 1949).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May 20, 1948- ).

CMA, Geometric and Biomorphic Line (Feb. 12-Apr. 13, 1948).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May. 14, 1946- ).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (July 27, 1944- ).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 29, 1943-July 27, 1944).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 17-Oct. 4, 1942).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Oct. 28, 1941-May 31, 1942).

CMA, "Supplement to Silver Jubilee Exh." (July 22-Oct. 26, 1941).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 4-Apr., 1941).

CMA, Drawings by Old Italian Masters from the Collection (June 5, 1940-Feb. 25, 1941).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 4-Mar. 26, 1939).

CMA, Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London, Supplemented by Drawings from the Collection (Oct. 1-30, 1938).

CMA, Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tiepolo and His Contemporaries (Mar. 18-Apr. 24, 1938), no. 48, illus.

CMA, "40 Drawings from the Museum Collection" (May 28-Nov. 7, 1937).

CMA (hung gallery II Nov. 25, 1936).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May 21-Nov. 25, 1936).

CMA, Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Nov. 8-Dec. 7, 1934).

CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from 1630 to 1830 in the Classic and Romantic Tradition (Dec. 7, 1932-Jan. 11, 1933).

CMA (Jan. 6, 1930-Dec. 1, 1932).

London, Magnasco Society (July, 1927).

Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933).

Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937).

Tiepolo and His Contemporaries. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 14-April 24, 1938).

Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 30-October 30, 1938).

Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939).

Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 22-October 26, 1941).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942).

Exhibition of the Month: Components of Art: The Line. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 12, 1948).

Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of Berlin Museum Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-March 27, 1949).

Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).

Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).

Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968).

The Tiepolos and Their World. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 6-November 22, 1981).

National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).

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