The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 5, 2023

Cupid in the Clouds with Attendant Cherubs

1757 or after

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

(Italian, 1727–1804)

Italy, 18th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash

Support: Cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 18.4 x 24.6 cm (7 1/4 x 9 11/16 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1991.326

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower left, in brown ink: Dom. Tiepolo f ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: [s] [circled] F / F E O [sideways] ; across bottom, in graphite: C - 177 - [Bt from Manillo Mss?] Venice 1929 ; lower center, in graphite: Dom Tiepolo [Jr?]

Provenance
Collectors mark? (verso, lower left, in graphite: S [circled]). Mr. and Mrs A. Dean Perry (Perry stamp?, verso, lower left, in brown ink: D.F.P. [circled]). Naya(?) (lower center, in graphite: Ex Naya)
Exhibition history

CMA, "Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary" (Oct. 27, 1992-Jan. 3, 1993), cma Bulletin 80 (1993), p. 75 no. 321.

Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1991.326