Capriccio with Two Old Men and Two Youths

between 1665 and 1747

Giuseppe Maria Crespi Italian, 1665-1747

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About the Artwork

Title Capriccio with Two Old Men and Two Youths

Artwork Date between 1665 and 1747

Artist Giuseppe Maria Crespi

Life Dates 1665-1747

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Pen and brown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on buff antique laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 9 11/16 × 7 5/8 inches (24.6 × 19.4 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1SDR211.A

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and black ink, verso, lower right: No 2701 Spagnoletto f.1

Provenance

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice, Italy).
Johann Dominik Bossi and Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (Stuttgart, Germany);
March 27, 1882, Bossi-Beyerlen sale (Stuttgart, Germany).
March 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England).
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Carlson, Victor I. Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 105, no. 47.

Shaw, James Byam, George Knox. The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 6, Italian Eighteenth Century Drawings. New York and Princeton, 1987, p. 30, no. 1.

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Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Capriccio with Two Old Men and Two Youths, between 1665 and 1747, pen and brown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on buff antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR211.A.