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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Figure Studies for Ceiling Decorations
Pen and dark brown ink, with brown and gray wash, on paper.
10 7/16 x 7 5/16 inches (265 x 187 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1983.52
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Watermark: Unidentified figure in a double circle, with crown above and letters "B.R..A.." below.
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Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de St. Saphorin, Switzerland; Alfred Bovet, Switzerland?; Eugène Burnand, Sepey, Switzerland (no mark; see Lugt S. 314d); acquired in 1972 in Geneva by Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Bovet, Alfred, b. 1859, former owner.
Burnand, Eugène, 1850-1921, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 305.
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