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Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Holden Collection
Museum
Sketch for a Ceiling
1750s
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Provenance
Public1858
Miner K. Kellogg (1814-1889), Paris
1884
Mrs. Liberty E. Holden
1916
Holden Collection
Provenance event
1858 Miner K. Kellogg, 1814-1889 (Paris, France)
Provenance event
1884-1916 Mrs.Liberty E. Holden (Cleveland, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
Source provenance text
Miner K. Kellogg (1814-1889), Paris Mrs. Liberty E. Holden Holden Collection 1858 Miner K. Kellogg, 1814-1889 (Paris, France) 1884-1916 Mrs.Liberty E. Holden (Cleveland, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). 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). Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1912: "Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection," catalogue: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vII, no.10 (October 1912), cat. no. 26 (author, bryson Burroughs). CMA, 1916: "The Inaugrual Exhibition of CMA," cat. no. 37. CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversry Exhibition," cat. no. 37. CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition" cat. no. 108. Birmingham, Alabama, Museum of Fine Art, 1978: "The Tiepolos, Painters to Princes and Prelates," ct. no. 22, illus. p. 79; Springfield (Mass.) Museum of Fine Arts, Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, October 29-December 15, 1991: "Artin the Age of Mozart,"
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Sourced Overview Evidence
This small, quickly painted picture is typical of the sketches Tiepolo made as studies for larger compositions. When completed full-scale on a ceiling, works like these give the impression of a massive window, through which one can see angels or mythological beings floating among the clouds. Although we know from the work's shape that it was a study for a ceiling painting, it is not related to any of Tiepolo's finished architectural decorations. Tiepolo used such sketches to explore design problems, experiment with form and color, or give his clients an idea of how a finished project would look. With the help of a large workshop, which included two of his sons, Tiepolo completed a number of painted ceilings and decorative schemes across Europe.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 5 structured provenance events · 5 structured exhibitions.
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