The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 7, 2023

Cupid Blindfolded and Two Doves

1757 or after

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

(Italian, 1727–1804)

Italy, 18th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash; framing lines in brown ink

Support: Cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 18.9 x 25.4 cm (7 7/16 x 10 in.)

Gift of Robert Hays Gries 1941.604

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower left, in brown ink: Dom Tiepolo f ; upper left, in brown ink: 57 ; VERSO, center left, in brown ink: 265 [sideways] ; upper left, in blue pencil: 39. #7 ; upper right, in blue pencil: 100ºº ; center, in graphite: 15 [5 is crossed out] ; center right, in graphite: [illegible]

Provenance
Dr. Daniel A. Huebsch (according to departmental card)
Exhibition history

Pepper Pike, Ohio, Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College; Lakewood, Ohio, Kenneth C. Beck Center, Drawing: A Line of Departure (Oct. 12-Dec. 15, 1985; Sep. 7-Nov. 3, 1986).

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

CMA, removed, director's corridor (Oct. 19, 1954).

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" (May. 14, 1946- ).

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

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

CMA (Recent Accessions room, Mar. 4-Apr. 21, 1942).

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

Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1941.604