The Adoration of the Magi
c. 1740
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk
- Dimensions
- 38.7 × 28.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-208492
According to the Gospel of Matthew, three Magi, guided by a star, found the newborn Jesus and laid gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh before him. Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo’s drawing of the traditional subject places the Madonna on a platform as she holds the Christ child out toward three approaching magi. Two bearded white magi kneel in supplication as the turbaned black magi stands behind them. Tiepolo plays with the conventions of the Adoration subject by employing an asymmetrical composition. Working over his black chalk underdrawing, traces of which are visible in the f…
Provenance
Allen Fund, 1944.474
Registry history
- c. 1740 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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