Artist Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727-1804
Title
  • The Holy Family Entering the Boat with the Help of the Angels
  • The Madonna, Child and Angels Entering the Boat (alternate title)
  • Flight Into Egypt | Plate 16 (series title)
Date ca. 1753
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 7 × 9 3/8 inches (17.8 × 23.8 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (23.5 × 32.7 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S1150.6
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed, in plate, lower left of image: Do. Tiepolo | fecit.
Marks Stamp, in purple, verso: J. PEOLI. (Lugt 2020) Stamp, verso: Scripps (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, center lower edge: 16
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: 1150a
Inscribed, lower right corner: -5-
Inscribed, in black ink, verso: BGR
May 1894, J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA).
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Russell, D. H. Rare Etchings by Giovanni Battista and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1972, p. 98, no. 78.