Workshop of Tiepolo

N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, online edition, under G.B. Tiepolo (as anonymous related pastel)

Unexamined out of frame. Some minor rubbing to the pastel in places and a small loss visible to the upper left corner. The medium itself is still in a stable condition. Sold in a giltwood frame.
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This charming portrait of a young lady holding a parrot clearly relates to a red chalk drawing executed by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.¹  Giovanni Domenico's drawing was probably inspired by one of his father's paintings, however no exact work in oil by Giovanni Battista survives.

These popular portraits were often replicated by artists working in the Tiepolo studio.

1. T. Pignatti, Italian Drawings in Oxford from The Collections of the Ashmolean Museum and Christ Church, Oxford 1977, no. 75, reproduced