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The Holy Family Descending a Forest Path

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804)
1752

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 17.8 x 23.6 cm (7 x 9 5/16 in.)(trimmed into the image)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB3495.12
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Knox 108, a state before Knox's only described state, before the number "21"; Rizzi 87; de Vesme 21
Marks Verso, lower left-center, stamped in violet ink (almost completely faded), the mark of the MFA Babcock Bequest (Lugt 207); verso, lower left-center, stamped in violet ink (almost completely faded), the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock, Boston, Paris (1826-1899); his bequest to the MFA June 12, 1900