The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek

Provenance

Possibly Joseph Gulston (died 1786), Middlesex, to 1800 [Lugt 2986]. Bühnemann, Munich, by 1951-at least 1953 [Venice 1951; Ragghianti 1953]. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1958.

The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

c. 1719

Accession Number

111378

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

37 × 51.1 cm (14 5/8 × 20 1/8 in.)

Classification

ink or chalk wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Given in memory of Carl O. Schniewind