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The Last Communion of St. Jerome

c. 1726

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

(Italian, 1696–1770)

Italy, 18th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk heightened with lead white

Support: Beige(1) laid paper, laid down on beige(2) laid paper

Sheet: 55.2 x 40.8 cm (21 3/4 x 16 1/16 in.); Secondary Support: 55.2 x 40.8 cm (21 3/4 x 16 1/16 in.)

Gift of Edward B. Greene 1950.449

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO, center right, in graphite: Marge blanche / plat [underlined] ; lower right, in brown ink: Cabinet de Julien de parme et de N. / J. B. Tiepolo invt fecit

Provenance
Jean Antoine Julien (called Julien de Parme) (Lugt 1403, verso, lower right, in brown ink). Albert Meyer, Paris (according to Cambridge and New York, 1996, p. 52); [Galerie Charpentier, Paris] (according to Cambridge and New York, 1996, p. 51). [Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc.]
Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” June 1, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
Aikema, Bernard. Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996. Mentioned: p.52; Reproduced: p.53
Exhibition history

Birmingham (Ala.) Museum of Art, The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates (1978), no. 36, illus.

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; Mar. 16, 1971- (Gallery F remained open)).

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770-1970 (Mar. 14-May 3, 1970), illus. p. 10. (also, first, to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, or only sent there for photo (Jan. 22, 1970) and then shipped to the Fogg??--see notebook file)

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, "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, Exhibition of Representative Gifts and Bequests through 35 Years (June 19-Sept. 23, 1951).

CMA, installed with other most important 1950 accessions April 8, 1950, for trustees viewing.

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

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).

Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770 - 1970. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (March 14-May 3, 1970).

The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (organizer) (January 8-February 19, 1978); Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, OH, Springfield, OH (March 19-May 7, 1978).

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

Tiepolo and his Circle: Drawings in American Collections. HUAM, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA (October 12-December 15, 1996); The Morgan Library & Museum (January 17-April 13, 1997).

Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001).

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