Recent
purchases in this area include, for example, a masterful, delicate black
chalk drawing by Francesco Vanni, Kneeling Figure and a Hand Holding a Bowl, acquired in 1995, and an energetic ink, wash, and
chalk drawing by Antonio Zanchi, Moses Striking the Rock, which was added in 2000 (Fig. 12).34
The first
drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in the collection, Chronos Devouring his Child (Fig. 4), was
purchased in 1934 from A. Everett «Chick» Austin, Jr., director of the Wadsworth Athenaeum at Hartford and a fellow Harvard graduate student with Professor of Art Agnes Rindge; Austin evidently bought the sheet from the Savile Gallery in London.21 The brown ink and wash
drawing with traces of black
chalk is a variation of a work in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is related to a
drawing in The Pierpont Morgan Library that is very close in concept to a portion of the ceiling of the Palazzo Clerici in Milan.22 Other gifts of
drawings came in the 1930s, mostly contemporary American art, as well as nineteenth - century sketchbooks by Sanford Robinson Gifford, which complemented the four paintings by this Hudson River School painter that were already in the Magoon collection.