The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1712/1715

Not on View

pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk, and pen and black ink with gray wash; scattered unrelated touches of red chalk on left

overall: 34.5 × 46.7 cm (13 9/16 × 18 3/8 in.)

1974.72.2

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

by artist in black ink "Al Molto Ill Sig"; modern graphite "Kisti" (?)

Siegmund Nauheim, Frankfurt; Alberto Sichel Morales; (sale Christie's, London, 25 June 1974, no. 60, repro); purchased (via Yvonne tan Bunzl) by NGA.

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Morales, Alberto Sichel
Nauheim, Siegmund
tan Bunzl, Yvonne, Ms.

1985: Figure Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 63.

1996: Tiepolo and His Circle. Drawings in American Collections. Fogg Art Museum, Cambirdge, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Cambridge, 1996: 16.