The Apostles' Creed
1770s/1780s
Artist, Venetian, 1727 - 1804

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc., in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
overall: 47.2 x 36.6 cm (18 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
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Accession
1991.92.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jean-François Gigoux [1806-1894] (Lugt 1164), Paris; (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20-23 March 1882, no. 173); Eugène Féral (his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 22-24 April 1901, no. 239); private collection, Paris; Stephen Spector [died 1985], New York; Peter W. Josten, New York; (Stephen Mazoh and Co., Inc., New York); gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, supplement.
1995
Splendori del Settecento Veneziano, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1995, 469, 471, no. 199 (repro. p. 471)(entry by Attilia Dorigato).
1996
Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman, Civici Musei e Gallerie di Storia ed Arte, Udine, 1996; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1997, no. 112.
2006
"Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament", The Frick Collection, New York, 2006-2007, 596-597, 803, no. 254 (Adelheid M. Gealt and George Knox).
Bibliography
1962
Van Schaack, Eric. Master Drawings in Private Collections. New York, 1962: no. 64.
1991
NGA Anniversary, catalogue supplement page.
Inscriptions
lower right in pen and ink: Dom. Tiepolo f; center in pen and ink: SIMBOLO APOSTOLICO / CREDO / IN SECNO CON IL QVALE SI / CONQSCESCESSER LI FEDELI E'PER / TE NERLO PER VN SOMMARIO BREVE / E COMPENDIOSO DI QUELLO CHE ESSI / D OVEVANO PREDICARE, E CREDERE
Wikidata ID
Q64572408