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The Holy Family, Saint Joseph with a Book, 1750–59. Pen and brown iron gall ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk (recto) and black chalk (verso) on off-white laid paper, tipped on to ivory laid paper.
Pen and brown iron gall ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk (recto) and black chalk (verso) on off-white laid paper, tipped on to ivory laid paper · Primary support: 27.7 × 19.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Holy Family, Saint Joseph with a Book
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Italian, 1696–1770
- Date
- 1750–59
- Medium
- Pen and brown iron gall ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk (recto) and black chalk (verso) on off-white laid paper, tipped on to ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 27.7 × 19.9 cm (10 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 30.1 × 22.1 cm (11 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1696–1770
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.