Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World

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Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World

Giovanni Battista TiepoloLinkedCulture matchlcp-fed58860a502

Date
1742/43
Medium
Black chalk, with pen and black and brown ink and brush and various brown washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
Culture
Italy
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
202256

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Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Provenance
Artaria and Co., Vienna. Dr. Gottfried Eissler (1862–1924), Vienna, 1910; sold, Vienna, May 6–7, 1925, lot 150. Private collection, Switzerland. Eugene Victor Thaw, New York. Peter Jay Sharp; sold, Salamander Fine Arts, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Sept. 20, 2006 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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AAT300033973

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