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Flight into Egypt: The Embarkment of the Holy Family

c. 1735

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

(Italian, 1696–1770)

Italy, 18th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in black chalk

Support: Cream(1) laid paper

Sheet: 30 x 44.7 cm (11 13/16 x 17 5/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.443

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

upper left, in black chalk: [851?] [sideways]

Citations

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Gordon Bailey Washburn, and Agnes Mongan. Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America; January, 1935, the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. [Buffalo, N.Y.]: [F.W. Burow], 1935. Reproduced: cat. no. 66

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 574 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 144 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 144 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 144 archive.org

Exhibition history

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (dates? 1970?).

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

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Apr. 1, 1963).

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

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

CMA, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition (Mar. 3, 1958-Oct. 11, 1959).

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

CMA, The Life of the Virgin (Dec. 7, 1954-Jan. 2, 1955).

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

Detroit Institute of Arts; Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, An Exhibition of the Venetian Eighteenth Century (Sep. 30-Nov. 2; Nov. 15-Dec. 31, 1952).

Detroit Institute of Arts, Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums (June 1-Sep. 15, 1950).

CMA (removed from director's corridor May 10, 1950; rehung Jan. 8, 1951?).

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. 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 (removed from gallery II Oct. 27, 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).

Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico (Feb. 4-Mar. 6, 1938), no. 51, illus.

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

CMA, Laces and Drawings from the Museum Collection (Dec. 16, 1936-Jan. 3, 1937).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May 21-Dec. 13, 1936).

CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections (July 10-Sep. 15, 1935).

Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America (Jan., 1935), no. 66, illus.

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

CMA, Exhibition of Lace, Drawings, and Furniture (July 11-Sep. 3. 1934).

CMA, "Drawings of the Period Shown with the Louise Tifft Brown Lace Bequest" (Dec. 12, 1933-Jan. 1, 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 (1927), no. 44.

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).

Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (January 1-31, 1935).

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

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) (June 17-August 24, 1942).

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

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).

European Watercolors Through the 18th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 14-March 22, 1964).

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).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968).

Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-May 10, 1981).

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).

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

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