Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Head of a bearded old man

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January 25, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Venice 1696 - 1770 Madrid

Head of a bearded old man

Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk;

sold together with a separate sheet inscribed by Edward Cheney, detailing the early provenance: "This collection was made by G. B. Tiepolo himself and given by / him to his son for the library of the Sommasco convent (S. / Maria della Salute) at Venice in which he was pro / fessed. At the suppression of the convents the notebooks / fell into the hands of Cicognara by whom they were / given in an exchange to Canova from whom they / passed after his death to Mon^sr Canova his bro / ther, by him they were sold to Sig. Francesco / Pasaro [sic.] & by him to me.

E. C. Venice 1842."

244 by 192 mm; 9⅝ by 7½ in.

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Given by the artist to the Library of the Somasco Covent at Santa Maria della Salute, Venice;
Count Leopoldo Cicognara;
Antonio Canova,
by inheritance to his half-brother, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori-Canova;
Francesco Pesaro,
by whom sold to Col. Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire,
by inheritance to his brother-in-law, Col. Alfred Capel-Cure, Blake Hall, Essex;
sale, London, Sotheby’s, 29 April 1885, probably part of lot 1024, to E. Parsons and Sons, London;
with The Savile Gallery, London, Drawings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, exhib. cat., 1928;
with Kate Ganz Ltd, London, cat. 7, Master Drawings 1500-1900, 1989, no. 27