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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A standing man seen from behind

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July 8, 12:31 PM GMT

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Venice 1696 - 1770 Madrid

A standing man seen from behind


Pen and brown ink and grey wash over traces of black chalk, all four corners cut;

bears inscription in pen and brown ink on the back of the mount: Tiepoletto, veneziano, 1760 and also bears letters and numbering: 294 fr 9 = 9e

195 by 103 mm

Probably from the album Tomo terzo de caricature;
probably Count Bernardino Algarotti Corniani;
probably Breadalbane family;
Langton House, Dun, Berwickshire;
sale, Edinburgh, Dowells, 25 March 1925, lot 1004 (bought by J. Grant, bookseller, Edinburgh);
Arthur Kay, Edinburgh;
sale, London, Christie's, 9 April 1943;
Private Collection, Venice;
Italico Brass;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 2019, lot 341

The present caricature probably comes from the album entitled:  Tomo terzo de caricature (see Provenance). It can be compared with a group of caricatures from the Robert Lehman Collection, now housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which also have their corners cut.1

1. J. Byam Shaw and George Knox, Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection, Princeton 1987, nos. 99-111.