Currently not on view
Faith, Hope, and Charity,
mid–to late 1720s
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696–1770; born Venice, Italy; died Madrid, Spain
formerly attributed to Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian, 1682–1754
formerly attributed to Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian, 1682–1754
x1948-770
Information
Title
Faith, Hope, and Charity
Dates
mid–to late 1720s
Medium
Black chalk and brown wash, heightened with white gouache
Dimensions
39.2 × 25.9 cm (15 7/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
frame: 61 × 45.7 × 3 cm (24 × 18 × 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-770
Inscription
in graphite, on verso lower left: Meatyard 1928 as Tiepolo school (attributed to Piazetta) [in Platt's hand]
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamps, on verso: D.F.P. [in circle] [Lugt 750a] | P [in diamond shape] [Lugt 2066b]
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 589
Culture
Type
Materials
Pietro Monaco (1707–1772), Venice.
Meatyard;
bought in 1928 by Dan Fellows Platt;
Bequeathed to Princeton University Art Museum
formerly attributed to Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian, 1682–1754
- Otto Benesch, Venetian drawings of the eighteenth century in America, (New York, H. Bittner & Company, 1947). , no. 13, pl. 13
- George Knox, "Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo at Princeton", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 23, no. 1 (1964): p. 2-28., p. 8, no. 2; p. 12 (illus.)
- George Knox, "A group of Tiepolo drawings owned and engraved by Pietro Monaco", Master drawings 3, no. 4 (Winter, 1965): p. 389-397+444-447., p. 392, pl. 30
- Jacob Bean, Italian drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University; 106 selected examples, (New York: October House, 1966)., no. 14
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977).
- Bernard Aikema, Tiepolo and his circle: drawings in American collections, (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996)., p. 198, no. 15
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 100, cat. no. 42; p. 102 (illus.)
